Origin And History Of Frontiers

Author : George Curzon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530692113

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Origin and History of Frontiers by George Curzon Pdf

I would invite you to pause and consider what Frontiers mean, and what part they play in the life of nations. It was the adoption of a mistaken Frontier policy that brought the colossal ambitions of the great Napoleon with a crash to the ground. The allied armies might never have entered Paris had the Emperor not held out for an impossible Frontier for France. The majority of the most important wars in the history have been Frontier wars. To take the experience of the past half-century alone. The Franco-German War was a war for a frontier ...

Author : Kerwin Lee Klein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520924185

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Frontiers of Historical Imagination by Kerwin Lee Klein Pdf

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 once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World met the nonhistorical wilds of the New. It was not only the cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and nonhistorical defied and defined each other. Klein maintains that the idea of a collision between people with and without history still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes, resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them into the language used to describe the American frontier. In Klein's words, "We remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America' balances on history's shifting frontiers."

Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760463700

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On the Frontiers of History by Tessa Morris-Suzuki Pdf

Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis.

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066384135

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The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner Pdf

The Frontier in American History is a collection of works related to the history of American colonization of Wild West. Turner expresses his views on how the idea of the frontier shaped the American being and characteristics. He writes how the frontier drove American history and why America is what it is today. Turner reflects on the past to illustrate his point by noting human fascination with the frontier and how expansion to the American West changed people's views on their culture. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ The Significance of the Frontier in American History_x000D_ The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay_x000D_ The Old West_x000D_ The Middle West_x000D_ The Ohio Valley in American History_x000D_ The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History_x000D_ The Problem of the West_x000D_ Dominant Forces in Western Life_x000D_ Contributions of the West to American Democracy_x000D_ Pioneer Ideals and the State University_x000D_ The West and American Ideals_x000D_ Social Forces in American History_x000D_ Middle Western Pioneer Democracy

Author : Robert V. Hine,John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300117103

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Frontiers by Robert V. Hine,John Mack Faragher Pdf

Updated and revised for a popular audience, a fascinating new edition of the classic The American West: A New Interpretation examines the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and the impact of their intermingling and clash, the influence of the frontier, and topics ranging from early exploration of the region to modern-day environmentalism.

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:612500550

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The Significance of the Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner Pdf

Author : Frederick J. Turner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368266424

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The Frontier in American History by Frederick J. Turner Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Jay H. Buckley,Brenden W. Rensink
Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 1442249587

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Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier by Jay H. Buckley,Brenden W. Rensink Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier covers early Euro-American exploration and development of frontiers in North America. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on explorers, adventurers, traders, religious orders, developers, and indigenous peoples.

Author : Michael Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : 0536021988

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Frontiers by Michael Allen Pdf

Author : Julie Michelle Klinger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501714610

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Rare Earth Frontiers by Julie Michelle Klinger Pdf

Owing to their unique magnetic, phosphorescent, and catalytic properties, rare earths are the elements that make possible teverything from the miniaturization of electronics, to the enabling of green energy and medical technologies, to supporting essential telecommunications and defense systems. An iPhone uses eight rare earths for everything from its colored screen, to its speakers, to the miniaturization of the phone?s circuitry. On the periodic table rare earth elements comprise a set of seventeen chemical elements (the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium). There would be no Pokémon Go without rare earths. Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography. Klinger looks historically and geographically at the ways rare earth elements in three discrete but representative and contested sites are given meaning.

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614275726

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The Significance of the Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner Pdf

2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1894 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. He stressed the process-the moving frontier line-and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process. He also stressed consequences of a ostensibly limitless frontier and that American democracy and egalitarianism were the principle results. In Turner's thesis the American frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and eroding old, dysfunctional customs. The frontier had no need for standing armies, established churches, aristocrats or nobles, nor for landed gentry who controlled most of the land and charged heavy rents. Frontier land was free for the taking. Turner first announced his thesis in a paper entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered to the American Historical Association in 1893 in Chicago. He won very wide acclaim among historians and intellectuals. Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories. By the time Turner died in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in the U.S. were teaching courses in frontier history along Turnerian lines.

Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Modern dance
ISBN : 9780151015153

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The First Frontier by Scott Weidensaul Pdf

Author : Yuko Miki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108417501

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Frontiers of Citizenship by Yuko Miki Pdf

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity. This book focuses on the interconnected histories of black and indigenous people on Brazil's Atlantic frontier, and makes a case for the frontier as a key space that defined the boundaries and limitations of Brazilian citizenship.

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1330796004

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The Frontier in American History (Classic Reprint) by Frederick Jackson Turner Pdf

Excerpt from The Frontier in American History In republishing these essays in collected form, it has seemed best to issue them as they were originally printed, with the exception of few slight corrections of slips in the text and with the omission of occasional duplication of language in the different essays. A considerable part of whatever value they may posses arises from the fact that they are commentaries in different periods on the central theme of the influence of the frontier in American history. Consequently they may have some historical significance as contemporaneous attempts of a student of American history, at successive transitions in our development during the past quarter century to interpret the relations of the present to the past. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the various societies and periodicals which have given permission to reprint the essays. Various essays dealing with the connection of diplomatic history and the frontier and others stressing the significance of the section, or geographic province, in American history, are not included in the present collection. Neither the French nor the Spanish frontier is within the scope of the volume. The future alone can disclose how far these interpretations are correct for the age of colonization of the frontier and free land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802191090

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The Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery Pdf

A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World). Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America’s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best—both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that “will forever change your perspective on the North American continent” (The New York Review of Books).