Regeneration through violence

Richard Slotkin

earliest edition we have, 1973 Wesleyan University Press, 1979 670 pages

"In Regeneration through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early ninetee...

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Regeneration through violence edition · 2000 · University of Oklahoma Press · 669 pages
Regeneration through violence edition · 1996 · HarperPerennial · 670 pages
Regeneration through violence edition · 1979 · Wesleyan University Press · 670 pages
Regeneration through violence edition · 1973 · Wesleyan University Press · 670 pages

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