Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past.

Faragher, John Mack; Cronon, William; Miles, George C.; Gitlin, Jay; Etulain, Richard W.; Limerick, Patricia Nelson; Milner, Clyde A.; Rankin, Charles E.; Nash, Gerald D.; Worster, Donald

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“…Turner's thesis had a profound impact on the early studies of frontier in the Americas as well as in Europe (Burns 1989;Faragher 1993;Forbes 1968;Kutchen 2005). Although since its conception the approach has undergone criticism and reformulations, the ideas of the frontier presented by Turner still appeal to scholars and are hard to overcome (for recent reviews and critiques, see Berend 1999;Kutchen 2005).…”

Section: Frontiers As a Field Of Studymentioning

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Re-emerging Frontiers: Postcolonial Theory and Historical Archaeology of the Borderlands

Naum

2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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The article considers the importance of frontier studies in historical archaeology and discusses applicability of some of the concepts deriving from postcolonial theories for a better understanding of human relationships in the frontier zones. The conditions of frontiers and borderlands are compared with the characteristics of the "Third Space" described by Homi Bhabha as a realm of negotiation, translation and remaking. It is argued that concepts developed in postcolonial theories, such as "Third Space," "in-betweeness" or hybridity, are useful not only to address cultural and social processes in borderlands that were created by colonial empires. They are also an apt way to conceptualize relationships in frontiers that lacked colonial stigma. To illustrate this point, two different historical examples of borderlands are scrutinized in this paper: the medieval frontier region that emerged between Denmark and the Northwestern Slavic area and the creation of the colonial frontier in Northeastern America through the establishment of the Praying Indian Towns.

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Section: Frontiers As a Field Of Studymentioning

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Re-emerging Frontiers: Postcolonial Theory and Historical Archaeology of the Borderlands

Naum

2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…O boom de textos sobre o campo e suas aventuras e desventuras no começo dos anos 1990 escancarou as profundas divergências entre historiadores que defendiam a retomada de um modelo explicativo nacional e transnacional, com uma interessante retomada dos pressupostos turnerianos (Cronon et al, 1992;Faragher, 1993;Aron, 1994) e aqueles que advogavam a perspectiva regionalista, mesmo que um tanto quanto matizada (Limerick, 1990;Worster, 1991;White, 1991). Mas apesar da crise ter continuado sem uma solução aparente, as discussões das décadas de 1980 e 1990 (principalmente aquelas ocorridas quando do centenário da frontier thesis, em 1993) serviram para renovar o interesse pelo campo e para demonstrar ao mainstream historiográfi co dos Estados Unidos que a Western History continuava viva e vibrante, como, aliás, nunca deixara de ser.…”

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Da história da fronteira à história do Oeste: fragmentação e crise na Western history norte-americana no século XX

Ávila¹

2009

HTU

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“…For thoughtful critiques of the New Western History, see Faragher (); Faragher (); Nugent (); Allen (); and Thompson (). For more intensely critical comments, see Nash () and Savage, Jr. ().…”

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“…White (1985),297-298;and Faragher (1993), 115.4 Hagan (1997), 32.5 The most cogent articulation of the New Western History's agenda is found inLimerick et al (1991); see alsoLimerick (1987), esp. 17-32.…”

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Beyond it all: Surveying the intersections of modern American Indian, environmental, and western histories

Allison

2018

History Compass

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At the close of the twentieth century, the related fields of American Indian, environmental, and western history produced the discipline's most dynamic historiographies. For all their collective insights, however, these works rarely crossed into the twentieth century to examine modern Indians in the American West. This is no longer the case. This essay, thus, first explores the social and political conditions that produced the “New Indian History” and the “New Western History” by the 1990s, and then examines recent work that incorporates “post‐colonial” and “settler colonialism” approaches to reveal a more nuanced picture of the recent Indian past and the meanings indigenous people attach to it. Finally, the analysis turns to calls for a new historiography—labeled variously as the “indigenous paradigm” or the “writing back” approach—and details the benefits and challenges it poses to the study of history. Throughout, the essay demonstrates the fundamental connection between the ever‐changing present and our evolving understandings of the past.

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Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past.

Cited by 18 publications

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Re-emerging Frontiers: Postcolonial Theory and Historical Archaeology of the Borderlands

Re-emerging Frontiers: Postcolonial Theory and Historical Archaeology of the Borderlands

Da história da fronteira à história do Oeste: fragmentação e crise na Western history norte-americana no século XX

Beyond it all: Surveying the intersections of modern American Indian, environmental, and western histories

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