The West and the Word : Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse
Western expansion in North America has mainly been described as either a linear sequence energized by nineteenth-century nation-building processes at a moving frontier, or as the practice of settler colonialism and its exploitation of resources and displacement of nonwhite peoples. This book suggest...
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De Gruyter Oldenbourg
2020
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