Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity by Varley, Dr. Molly K

University of Oklahoma Press. Used - Good. A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price!

University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. College textbook sticker to back cover, otherwise text is unmarked and book is in nice condition. 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..

Unread, not fully opened; erased marks inside cover.

Hardback. New. Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time--with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy--AmericansRecaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2014. Hardcover. New. new edition edition. 240 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches.

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