The Significance of the Frontier in American History
2014 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 fron…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61427-572-5
- EAN: 9781614275725
- Produktnummer: 15912102
- Verlag: Martino Fine Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 32 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.2 cm 64 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 64
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