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Author : Frederick Turner
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1999-02-08
Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner written by Frederick Turner and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-08 with History categories.
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.
The Early Writings Of Frederick Jackson Turner
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Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
The Early Writings Of Frederick Jackson Turner written by Frederick Jackson Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with United States categories.
The Frontier In American History
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Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-17
The Frontier In American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with History categories.
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
An Analysis Of Frederick Jackson Turner S The Significance Of The Frontier In American History
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Author : Joanna Dee Das
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
An Analysis Of Frederick Jackson Turner S The Significance Of The Frontier In American History written by Joanna Dee Das and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
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.
Frederick Jackson Turner
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Author : Max Farrand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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Author : James D. Bennett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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Author : Martin Ridge
language : en
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Release Date : 2016-02-26
Frederick Jackson Turner written by Martin Ridge and has been published by Wisconsin Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-26 with History categories.
This book contains four essays by and about Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), the Wisconsin-born historian whose ideas and writings have had such a profound impact upon the way Americans view their past, and their place in the world. It is a book not only for the scholar and teacher (who will find it both useful and incisive), but also for the mythic "general reader" who wants to broaden and enrich his aquaintanceship with Turner and the celebrated Frontier Thesis. In addition to essays by Turner and by Martin Ridge of The Huntington Library and the late Ray Allen Billington, the book is illustrated with photos from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Shaping The American Character The Significance Of The Frontier In American History
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Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
language : en
Publisher: Now and Then Reader LLC
Release Date : 2012-01-10
Shaping The American Character The Significance Of The Frontier In American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner and has been published by Now and Then Reader LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-10 with History categories.
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.
The Historical World Of Frederick Jackson Turner
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Author : Wilbur R. Jacobs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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Author : Vernon E. Mattson
language : en
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
Release Date : 1985
Frederick Jackson Turner written by Vernon E. Mattson and has been published by Hall Reference Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Reference categories.