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The Invention of American Tradition

Revolution and Ideology

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The Myth of the Wild Frontier

Before 16 thirties, we don't see hardly any usage of these terms to describe the east coast. But then there are a few landmarks books, and authors that start making use of this terminology. And so he demonstrates in the section specifically how that was invented as myth. The next part that i think isof interest is his creation of the ignoble salvage. Is he's really trying to say savage? He uses the word salvage because that waswat was used at the time,. That word in the english wayn language is now evolved too, savage. We do know that there are historians, anthropologists that can challenge this notion through actual empirical evidence here. And we have chosen

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