Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity Tapa blanda - 2024

Paperback / softback. New. It was on the frontier, where “civilized” men and women confronted the “wilderness,” that Europeans first became Americans—or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians.<br /><br />For Americans in the Progressive Era (1890–1916) these stories of Indian captivity seemed to prove that the violence of national expansion had been justified, that citizens’ individual suffering had been heroic, and that settlers’ contact with Indians and wilderness still characterized the nation’s “soul.” Furthermore, in the act of… Leer más

University of Oklahoma Press, 2024. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.74 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.