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Title: Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? (Historians at Work) by Richard W. Etulain, Richard Etulain ISBN: 0-312-18309-7 Publisher: Bedford Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.35 |
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Summary: Reconsidering Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
Comment: Wisconsin History Professor Frederick Jackson Turner came up with the "Frontier Thesis," the idea that it was the frontier that was the most important factor in shaping the American nation. Turner linked American democracy, nationalism, individualism, as well as physical and social mobility to how pioneers faced the frontier as they moved the boundaries of the United States westward. Richard W. Etulain presents four essays responding to Turner's Frontier Thesis and the question "Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional?"
Richard White's essay compares and contrasts how Turner and Buffalo Bill Cody interpreted the closing of the West at the end of the 19th-Century. White sees these narratives as having some elements in common but ultimately offering competing narrative explanations. In her essay Glenda Riley notes that Turner clearly ignored women from his story of the Frontier and outlines what he may have missed as a result. Martin Ridge focuses on the influence of Turner's thesis and characterizes Turner as sort of the high priest of American exceptionalism. Finally, Donald Worster notes that historians have essentially dismissed Turner's theory since the 1950s and considers what appropriate interpretation should be offered. Worster argues that historians should return to the interpretation offered by Walter Prescott Webb, who considered the West as an evolving place separate from what was happening in the big cities on each coast.
I have always considered Turner's "Frontier Thesis" to be the prime example of historiography when it comes to introducing the concept to students. From talking to students it is clear that the Frontier Thesis has not been taught in schools for years, which is a shame because since the thesis so eminently debatable, as this collection of essays proves, it remains the perfect way of making students aware that what we teach as history is a collection of arguments rather than the "true" story of what "really" happened. As such, this volume is a useful source of alternative theories as well as insights into the strengths and weaknesses of Turner's ideas.
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Title: Civil War America: Making of a Nation, 1848 - 1877 by Robert Cook ISBN: 058238107X Publisher: Longman Publishing Group Pub. Date: 22 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (American Century Series) by Harry L. Watson, Eric Foner ISBN: 0374521964 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Six Degrees of Separation: A Play by John Guare ISBN: 0679734813 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Thinks by David Lodge ISBN: 0142000868 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994-January 7, 1995 by Richard White, Patricia Nelson Limerick, James R. Grossman, Newberry Library ISBN: 0520088441 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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