The Fatal Environment(English, Paperback, Slotkin Richard)

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The Fatal Environment(English, Paperback, Slotkin Richard) is written by Slotkin Richard and published by University of Oklahoma Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 080613030X (ISBN 10) and 9780806130309 (ISBN 13).

In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to justify the course of America's rise to wealth and power. Using Custer's Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the savage element be permitted to dominate the civilized, Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a myth redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion.