Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", and Other Essays

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Yale University Press, 8 Φεβ 1999 - 276 σελίδες

"The best assembly of Turner's essays now available. Faragher's introductory and concluding commentaries add considerably to the import of the book."--Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles

"Still ranks as the most influential piece of writing on American history."--Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer, A Notable Book of 1994

"Faragher's invaluable afterword . . . provides a judicious introduction to the issues that divide the revisionist New Western Historians from Turner and his disciples."--Michael Kammen, FanFare

Frederick Jackson Turner is often considered to be the most influential American historian of the century, and his views continue to shape the controversial field of Western American history. In this book, John Mack Faragher introduces and comments on ten of Turner's most significant essays, concluding with a comment on the recent debate over Turner's legacy and his effect on Americans' understanding of their national character.

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INTRODUCTION
1
ONE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HISTORY 1891
11
TWO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER
31
THREE THE PROBLEM OF THE WEST 1896
61
FOUR CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE WEST
77
FIVE PIONEER IDEALS AND THE STATE
101
SIX SOCIAL FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
119
SEVEN THE WEST AND AMERICAN IDEALS 1914
140
EIGHT MIDDLE WESTERN PIONEER DEMOCRACY
159
NINE SECTIONS AND NATION 1922
181
TEN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SECTION
201
AFTERWORD
225
NOTES
243
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John Mack Faragher is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail and Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, both published by Yale University Press.

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