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The Use and the Abuse of Mythic Violence

Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (New York, Atheneum, 1992) The Use and the Abuse of Mythic (Aristocratic) Violence in the post-Frontier Era “The most fundamental principle of the Declaration is its idea that … Continue reading

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