ISBN:
9780700631025
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070063102X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 342 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jacobs, Wilbur R On Turner's trail
Keywords:
Turner, Frederick Jackson Influence
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Turner, Frederick Jackson
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Historiography
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Geschiedschrijving
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Geschichtsschreibung
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HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
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West (U.S.) Historiography
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West United States
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USA ; Weststaaten
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USA
;
Frontier
Abstract:
Turner's essay of 1893: the frontier as a molding force -- Turner's apprenticeship: the waspish trail -- The making of a historian: Yankee perspectives -- Developing a ruling theory -- Explaining colonial American history -- Explaining agricultural history -- The twentieth century: politics, urbanization, and world government -- Turner and the threats of the twentieth century -- Turner's shadow on world frontiers -- The "realwestern" history: its impact upon generations of students -- The emergence of Frederick Merk -- Reverse environmentalism and other teaching themes -- Merk takes the flag --The Billington era -- The challenge of Richard White to the Turnerian legacy -- Turnerian echoes in William Cronon's Nature's metropolis -- After a century: minefields along the Turnerian trail.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-330) and index
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
URL:
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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