Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 Book. As New. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. xi, 377 pp, preface, Introduction: History, Narrative, West; I. THE LANGUAGE OF HISTORY: What Was the Frontier Thesis?; Histories and Hypotheses; Explaining History; Systems and Paradigms; Narrative Explanations. II. FROM SPIRIT TO SYSTEM: An American Dante: Frederick Jackson Turner; Frontier Dialectics; The Folly of Comedy; Provincial Politics; John Dewey and the Frontier Tragedy; Pragmatism's Conception of Emplotment; Merle Curti's Corporate Frontier. III. TIME IMMEMORIAL: The Indian Trade in Universal History; William Christie MacLeod and the Tragic Savage; Ruth Benedict and the Cultural Turn; Ramon's Frontier Tale; Friedrich Nietzsche and the American Indians; The End of History: A World withour Culture; The Science of Acculturation; Ethno-History; The Double Plot of Edward H. Spicer; The Trouble with Tragedy; Margins, Borders, Boundaries; The End of Ethnohistory. IV. HISTORIES OF LANGUAGE: The Fourth Frontier of Henry Nash Smith; Culture versus Art: Leo Marx; Myth, Method, and Manliness; Queer Frontiers; Dialectica Fronterizos: Gloria Anzaldua; Postwestern; The Predicament of Culture; The Problem of History; Afterword: Language Is Story; notes, a bibliographic note, index. First Paperback Edition, 1999. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Paperback..