Does The Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN 13 : 9780312183097
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? written by Richard W. Etulain and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 1999-04-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the frontier experience make America exceptional? When Frederick Jackson Turner presented this idea in 1893 as the core of his now-famous thesis, he set in motion a debate that historians of the American West have contended with ever since. The concept of a frontier, a moving boundary that defined civilization and circumscribed the Wild West, was not new — though the idea that it made Americans unique was. Turner's paper is reprinted in its entirety, followed by articles by three "New Western" historians who bring the dialogue up to the present day by applying modern concerns to this long-standing issue. The last selection looks forward, asking what Turner's ideas mean for America as we head into the twenty-first century.

Author : Michael P. Johnson
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9781457659775
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the American Past + Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? written by Michael P. Johnson and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brook Thomas
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312440251
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plessy V. Ferguson + Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? + America Views the Holocaust written by Brook Thomas and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joanna Dee Das
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351353438
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the Frontier in American History written by Joanna Dee Das and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312411466
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book America a Concise History 2nd Edition Volume 2 + Does the Frontier Experience Make written by Richard W. Etulain and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2002-11-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David M. Wrobel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book The End of American Exceptionalism written by David M. Wrobel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid and rewarding synthesis of cultural and western history. -- Richard W. Etulain, author of Writing Western History. Wrobel makes a fine contribution to the study of myth by analyzing the anxiety, or angst, Americans felt about the frontier in the half-century after 1890. This is an excellent book on a big subject, executed with much skill. -- Western Historical Quarterly. Direct, admirably brief, and crisply written. -- Journal of American History.

Author : Edward Countryman
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312489731
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Did American Slavery Begin? + Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? + Declaring Rights + Cherokee Removal 2 ED + Creating an American Culture written by Edward Countryman and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jules R. Benjamin
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312583903
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Students Gde Hist 10e&does Frontier written by Jules R. Benjamin and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Countryman
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312402228
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book America a Concise History 2nd Edition+ What Did the Constitution Mean to Early written by Edward Countryman and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2001-10-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James S. Miller
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ISBN 13 : 9780312488765
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book America written by James S. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: