The Turner Thesis Concerning the Role of the Frontier in American History
Author: George Rogers Taylor
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 126
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Author: George Rogers Taylor
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 126
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Jackson Turner
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Published: 2014-02-13
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781614275725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2014 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: Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
Published: 1920-01-01
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Rogers Taylor
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Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781258425111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributing Authors Include Frederick Jackson Turner, Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Louis M. Hacker, And Many Others.
Author: Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-17
Total Pages: 305
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: George Rogers Taylor
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joanna Dee Das
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 1351353438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrederick 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: Frederick Jackson Turner
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrederick 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: Doc Taylor
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 0
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