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Author : Ray Allen Billington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UOM:39015048743184
Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547004660
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 : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614275726
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 : Michael S. Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X000848913
The American frontier thesis holds that the new vast land influenced the minds and characters of its settlers. Selections for this book were made on the basis of the variety of questions the authors posed to evaluate this thesis as it applies to Canada.
Author : Frederick Turner,John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0300075936
In 1893 a young Frederick Jackson Turner stood before the American Historical Association and delivered his famous frontier thesis. To a less than enthusiastic audience, he argued that "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development"; that this frontier accounted for American democracy and character; and that the frontier had closed forever with uncertain consequences for the American future. Despite the indifference of Turner's first audience, his essay would soon prove to be the single most influential piece of writing on American history, with extraordinary impact both in intellectual circles and in popular literature. Within a few years his views had become the dominant interpretation of the American past. A collection of his essays won the Pulitzer Prize, and for almost half a century, Turner's thesis was the most familiar model taught in schools, extolled by politicians, and screened in fictional form at local movie theaters each Saturday afternoon. Now, a hundred years after Turner's famous address, award-winning biographer John Mack Faragher collects and introduces the pioneer historian's ten most significant essays. Remarkable for their truly modern sense that a debate about the past is simultaneously a debate about the present, these essays remain stimulating reading, both as a road map to the early-twentieth-century American mind and as a model of committed scholarship. Faragher introduces us to Turner's work with a look at his role as a public intellectual and his effect on Americans' understanding of their national character. In the afterword, Faragher turns to the recent heated debate over Turner's legacy. Western history has reemerged in the news as historians argue over Turner's place in our current mind-set. In a world of dizzying intellectual change, it may come as something of a surprise that historians have taken so long to overturn the interpretation of a century-old conference paper. But while some claim that Turner's vision of the American West as a great egalitarian land of opportunity was long ago dismissed, others, in the words of historian Donald Worster, maintain that Turner still "presides over western history like a Holy Ghost.". Against this backdrop, Faragher looks at what the concept of the West means to us today and provides a reader's guide to the provocative new literature of the American frontier. Rereading these essays in the fresh light of Faragher's analysis brings new appreciation for the richness of Turner's work and an understanding of contemporary historians' admiration for Turner's commitment to the study of what it has meant to be American.
Author : Joanna Dee Das,Joseph Tendler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351353434
Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon. That is a testament to Turner's powers of creative synthesis; in a few short pages, he succeeded in redefining the way in which whole generations of Americans understood the manner in which their country was shaped, and their own character moulded, by the frontier experience. It is largely thanks to Turner's influence that the idea of America as the home of a sturdily independent people – one prepared, ultimately, to obtain justice for themselves if they could not find it elsewhere – was born. The impact of these ideas can still be felt today: in many Americans' suspicion of "big government," in their attachment to guns – even in Star Trek's vision of space as "the final frontier." Turner's thesis may now be criticised as limited (in its exclusion of women) and over-stated (in its focus on the western frontier). That it redefined an issue in a highly impactful way – and that it did so exceptionally eloquently – cannot be doubted.
Author : Ray Allen Billington
Publisher : Washington : American Historical Association
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UOM:39015004844786
Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732637836
Reproduction of the original: The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
Author : Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813171807
American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos. Throughout the twentieth century, the "frontier thesis" influenced film and television producers who used the West as a backdrop for an array of dramatic explorations of America's history and the evolution of its culture and values. The common themes found in Westerns distinguish the genre as a quintessentially American form of dramatic art. In Hollywood's West, Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor, and the nation's leading film scholars analyze popular conceptions of the frontier as a fundamental element of American history and culture. This volume examines classic Western films and programs that span nearly a century, from Cimarron (1931) to Turner Network Television's recent made-for-TV movies. Many of the films discussed here are considered among the greatest cinematic landmarks of all time. The essays highlight the ways in which Westerns have both shaped and reflected the dominant social and political concerns of their respective eras. While Cimarron challenged audiences with an innovative, complex narrative, other Westerns of the early sound era such as The Great Meadow (1931) frequently presented nostalgic visions of a simpler frontier era as a temporary diversion from the hardships of the Great Depression. Westerns of the 1950s reveal the profound uncertainty cast by the cold war, whereas later Westerns display heightened violence and cynicism, products of a society marred by wars, assassinations, riots, and political scandals. The volume concludes with a comprehensive filmography and an informative bibliography of scholarly writings on the Western genre. This collection will prove useful to film scholars, historians, and both devoted and casual fans of the Western genre. Hollywood's West makes a significant contribution to the understanding of both the historic American frontier and its innumerable popular representations.
Author : George Rogers Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UIUC:30112045996037
Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89058356478
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) was an American historian. He was a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin (1890-1910) and Harvard (1910-1922). He is best known for this work on the frontier in American history in which he emphasized the importance of the frontier in shaping the American character. The work was first published on July 12, 1893, in a paper read in Chicago to the American Historical Association during the Chicago World's Fair.
Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Now and Then Reader LLC
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781937853105
More than a hundred years after it was first articulated, Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis" remains one of the key interpretations of American history. Turner argued that the European heritage of Americans was less important in understanding the country they had made than their own experience in settling a continent. It was the circumstances of life on the frontierin fact a succession of frontiers that moved inexorably westwardthat were a determining influence on American character and institutions. Turner read this paper propounding his thesis at the meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, July 12, 1893, as part of the World's Columbian Exposition. It was timely, he suggested, because the Census of 1890 had announced the closing of the frontier in the United States and thus the end of an important stage of American development.
Author : Frederick J. Turner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368266424
Reproduction of the original.
Author : George Rogers Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UOM:39015048776259
Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393078800
"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.