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Historiography Flashcards

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Cawelti

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John Cawelti
The Six Gun Mystique
1970

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Slotkin

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Richard Slotkin

Regeneration Through Violence: the Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860
1973

The Fatal Environment: the myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890
1985

Gunfighter nation: the myth of the frontier in twentieth-century America
1992

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Kitses

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Jim Kitses
Horizons West
1969

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Warshow

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Robert Warshow
“Movie Chronicle: The Westerner”
1946

The Immediate Experience
1962

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Theory of the exaggeration of violence (2)

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Hine and Farago
Frontiers: A Short History of the American West
2000

Robert R. Dykstra
“Field Notes: Overdosing on Dodge City,”
1983

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New Western

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Patricia Limerick
The Legacy of Conquest
1978

4 Cs : Continuity, Convergence, Conquest and Complexity

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Foreign Policy

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William Appleman Williams
The Frontier Thesis and American Foreign Policy
1955

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Virgin Land

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Henry Nash Smith
Virgin Land
1950

mythification de figures que l’on charge de porter l’identité américaine (lit.)

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Cinema as reflection of society

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Siegfried Kracamer, 1947

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