Books by Patricia Nelson Limerick and Complete Book Reviews

Patricia Nelson Limerick, Author W. W. Norton & Company $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-03788-3
This opinionated, occasionally provocative collection of essays takes aim at Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis that the frontier closed in 1890. Picking up where her influential first book, The Legacy of Conquest (1987)--which helped galvanize a...
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Patricia Nelson Limerick, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-393-02390-9
The popular image of Western history is our own creation myth, writes the author, who teaches history at the University of Colorado. Frederick Jackson Turner's ethnocentric, nationalistic frontier is passe; modern historians have deemphasized the...
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