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Gunfighter nation : the myth of the frontier in twentieth-century America / Richard Slotkin.

By: Language: English Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1998Edition: Oklahoma paperbacks edDescription: xii, 850 s. 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0806130318
  • 9780806130316
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 978 21
Other classification:
  • Kt-qa.5
  • Ku-qa.5
  • Geq.5
  • Bs-qa:k.5
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Biblioteket HKR Biblioteket 970 Slotkin Available 11156000173783
Total holds: 0

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Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of the American frontier. Slotkin examines an impressive array of sources - fiction, Hollywood westerns, and the writings of Hollywood figures and Washington leaders - to show how the racialist theory of Anglo-Saxon ascendance and superiority (embodied in Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West), rather than Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis of the closing of the frontier, exerted the most influence in popular culture and government policy making in the twentieth century. He argues that Roosevelt's view of the frontier myth provided the justification for most of America's expansionist policies, from Roosevelt's own Rough Riders to Kennedy's counterinsurgency and Johnson's war in Vietnam.

Originally published: New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992

S. 767-828: Bibliografi. - Includes index