Kerwin Lee Klein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerwin Lee Klein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerwin Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Klein |
| SIGNATURE | KLEIN K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 231 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990
A Vertical World: The Eastern Alps and Modern Mountaineering
New sporting practices of modernity were products of complex dynamics of cultural remaking. Most accounts of the emergence of alpinism describe the new activity as part of modernization. As ways of seeing mountains changed, so did ways of moving in them. This involved a sharp break with the British gentlemanly preference for climbing without technical assistance. Modernists and alpinists found a new common ground in the Ostalpen of Tirol, a place…
Native Americans and the Burden of History
Steven Conn, History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004) Maureen Konkle, Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) New histories of indigenous and colonized peoples have revitalized some ancient questions. When and where does a properly historical discou…
Westward, Utopia: Robert V. Hine, Aldous Huxley, and the Future of California History
Research Article| August 01 2001 Westward, Utopia: Robert V. Hine, Aldous Huxley, and the Future of California History Kerwin Lee Klein Kerwin Lee Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2001) 70 (3): 465–476. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2001.70.3.465 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse
WELCOME TO THE MEMORY INDUSTRY. In the grand scheme ofthings, the industry ranges from the museum trade to the legal battles over repressed and on to the market for academic books and articles that invoke as key word. Our scholarly fascination with things memorable is quite new. As Jeffrey K. Olick and Joyce Robbins have noted, collective memory emerged as an object of scholarly inquiry only in the early twentieth century, contemporaneous with th…
The Degradation of American History
Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990
Journal Article Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890–1990 Get access Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890–1990. By Klein Kerwin Lee. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi + 377 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, index. £35.00, foreign; $45.00, U. S.) David M. Emmons David M. Emmons University of Montana Search for other work…
Frontiers of Historical ImaginationNarrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990: Narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for this book's analysis of the narrating of history. The book explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was o…
Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890–1990
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was o…
Reclaiming the "F" Word, or Being and Becoming Postwestern
Research Article| May 01 1996 Reclaiming the "F" Word, or Being and Becoming Postwestern Kerwin Lee Klein Kerwin Lee Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1996) 65 (2): 179-215. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639983 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
In Search of Narrative Mastery: Postmodernism and the People without History
Analyse des differents sens de l'expression metarecit ou recit principal qui designe une histoire globale (d'origine occidentale et colonialiste) assimilant les differentes cultures et communautes. A l'heure de l'homogenisaton mondiale, les histoires postmodernes developpees par Levi-Strauss, J.-F. Lyotard, J. Clifford et F. Fukuyama se sont pas parvenues a depasser l'antinomie hegelienne entre les peuples qui ont une histoire et ceux qui n'en on…
Frontier Products: Tourism, Consumerism, and the Southwestern Public Lands, 1890-1990
Research Article| February 01 1993 Frontier Products: Tourism, Consumerism, and the Southwestern Public Lands, 1890-1990 Kerwin L. Klein Kerwin L. Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1993) 62 (1): 39-71. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640522 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
Frontier Tales: The Narrative Contruction of Cultural Borders in Twentieth-Century California
Maclntyre sought to raise a series of crucial questions in an address before the Eighty-First Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. What is the best way to evaluate two competing languages, conceptual schemes, or cultural approaches to being in the world? May conceptual schemes or theoretical languages be so radically different as to be fully incommensurable, that is, incapable of intertranslation or me…
On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse
WELCOME TO THE MEMORY INDUSTRY. In the grand scheme ofthings, the industry ranges from the museum trade to the legal battles over repressed and on to the market for academic books and articles that invoke as key word. Our scholarly fascination with things memorable is quite new. As Jeffrey K. Olick and Joyce Robbins have noted, collective memory emerged as an object of scholarly inquiry only in the early twentieth century, contemporaneous with th…
Reclaiming the "F" Word, or Being and Becoming Postwestern
Research Article| May 01 1996 Reclaiming the "F" Word, or Being and Becoming Postwestern Kerwin Lee Klein Kerwin Lee Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1996) 65 (2): 179-215. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639983 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
In Search of Narrative Mastery: Postmodernism and the People without History
Analyse des differents sens de l'expression metarecit ou recit principal qui designe une histoire globale (d'origine occidentale et colonialiste) assimilant les differentes cultures et communautes. A l'heure de l'homogenisaton mondiale, les histoires postmodernes developpees par Levi-Strauss, J.-F. Lyotard, J. Clifford et F. Fukuyama se sont pas parvenues a depasser l'antinomie hegelienne entre les peuples qui ont une histoire et ceux qui n'en on…
Frontier Products: Tourism, Consumerism, and the Southwestern Public Lands, 1890-1990
Research Article| February 01 1993 Frontier Products: Tourism, Consumerism, and the Southwestern Public Lands, 1890-1990 Kerwin L. Klein Kerwin L. Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1993) 62 (1): 39-71. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640522 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
A Vertical World: The Eastern Alps and Modern Mountaineering
New sporting practices of modernity were products of complex dynamics of cultural remaking. Most accounts of the emergence of alpinism describe the new activity as part of modernization. As ways of seeing mountains changed, so did ways of moving in them. This involved a sharp break with the British gentlemanly preference for climbing without technical assistance. Modernists and alpinists found a new common ground in the Ostalpen of Tirol, a place…
Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890–1990
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was o…
Frontier Tales: The Narrative Contruction of Cultural Borders in Twentieth-Century California
Maclntyre sought to raise a series of crucial questions in an address before the Eighty-First Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. What is the best way to evaluate two competing languages, conceptual schemes, or cultural approaches to being in the world? May conceptual schemes or theoretical languages be so radically different as to be fully incommensurable, that is, incapable of intertranslation or me…
Westward, Utopia: Robert V. Hine, Aldous Huxley, and the Future of California History
Research Article| August 01 2001 Westward, Utopia: Robert V. Hine, Aldous Huxley, and the Future of California History Kerwin Lee Klein Kerwin Lee Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2001) 70 (3): 465–476. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2001.70.3.465 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Frontier Tales: The Narrative Contruction of Cultural Borders in Twentieth-Century California
Maclntyre sought to raise a series of crucial questions in an address before the Eighty-First Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. What is the best way to evaluate two competing languages, conceptual schemes, or cultural approaches to being in the world? May conceptual schemes or theoretical languages be so radically different as to be fully incommensurable, that is, incapable of intertranslation or me…
Frontier Products: Tourism, Consumerism, and the Southwestern Public Lands, 1890-1990
Research Article| February 01 1993 Frontier Products: Tourism, Consumerism, and the Southwestern Public Lands, 1890-1990 Kerwin L. Klein Kerwin L. Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1993) 62 (1): 39-71. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640522 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
In Search of Narrative Mastery: Postmodernism and the People without History
Analyse des differents sens de l'expression metarecit ou recit principal qui designe une histoire globale (d'origine occidentale et colonialiste) assimilant les differentes cultures et communautes. A l'heure de l'homogenisaton mondiale, les histoires postmodernes developpees par Levi-Strauss, J.-F. Lyotard, J. Clifford et F. Fukuyama se sont pas parvenues a depasser l'antinomie hegelienne entre les peuples qui ont une histoire et ceux qui n'en on…
Reclaiming the "F" Word, or Being and Becoming Postwestern
Research Article| May 01 1996 Reclaiming the "F" Word, or Being and Becoming Postwestern Kerwin Lee Klein Kerwin Lee Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1996) 65 (2): 179-215. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639983 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Frontiers of Historical ImaginationNarrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990: Narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for this book's analysis of the narrating of history. The book explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was o…
Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890–1990
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was o…
Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990
Journal Article Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890–1990 Get access Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890–1990. By Klein Kerwin Lee. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi + 377 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, index. £35.00, foreign; $45.00, U. S.) David M. Emmons David M. Emmons University of Montana Search for other work…
The Degradation of American History
On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse
WELCOME TO THE MEMORY INDUSTRY. In the grand scheme ofthings, the industry ranges from the museum trade to the legal battles over repressed and on to the market for academic books and articles that invoke as key word. Our scholarly fascination with things memorable is quite new. As Jeffrey K. Olick and Joyce Robbins have noted, collective memory emerged as an object of scholarly inquiry only in the early twentieth century, contemporaneous with th…
Westward, Utopia: Robert V. Hine, Aldous Huxley, and the Future of California History
Research Article| August 01 2001 Westward, Utopia: Robert V. Hine, Aldous Huxley, and the Future of California History Kerwin Lee Klein Kerwin Lee Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2001) 70 (3): 465–476. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2001.70.3.465 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Native Americans and the Burden of History
Steven Conn, History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004) Maureen Konkle, Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) New histories of indigenous and colonized peoples have revitalized some ancient questions. When and where does a properly historical discou…
A Vertical World: The Eastern Alps and Modern Mountaineering
New sporting practices of modernity were products of complex dynamics of cultural remaking. Most accounts of the emergence of alpinism describe the new activity as part of modernization. As ways of seeing mountains changed, so did ways of moving in them. This involved a sharp break with the British gentlemanly preference for climbing without technical assistance. Modernists and alpinists found a new common ground in the Ostalpen of Tirol, a place…
Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990
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