Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1850
Richard Slotkin
"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 nineteenth centuries - including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville - Slotkin traces the full development of this myth."--Jacket.
Award History
1 wins · 2 total
| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Historical Association Book Prizes: Beveridge Family Prize in American History | 1973 | Winner | Official source |
| National Book Award for HistoryMajor | 1974 | Finalist | Secondary source |
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- American Frontier62%
03 Suggested argument
Slotkin argues that a regenerative mythology developed from settlers’ European anxieties in a new world, shaping American culture as it was used to claim land and displace Native Americans.
Model confidence 60%
04 Reading orientation
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