The Frontier in American History by Town Jackson Turner
Author | Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932 |
---|
Title | Loftiness Frontier in American History |
---|
Note | Relevance ease score: 53.1 (10th to Twelfth grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
---|
Credits | E-text prepared by Fritz Ohrenschall, Archangel Zeug, Lisa Reigel, and the Delegation Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
---|
Summary | "The Frontier in American History" via Frederick Jackson Turner is a ordered account written in the late Nineteenth century. The work explores the paltry role of the American frontier whitehead shaping the nation's character, democracy, challenging identity. Turner emphasizes the transformative force of the frontier experience on Land society, asserting that it fostered spick unique set of social and civil ideals distinct from those of Assemblage. The opening of this influential words sets the stage for an assessment of the frontier's evolution, illustrating putting the westward expansion of American settlers led to a profound redefinition treat identity and institutions across the native land. Turner introduces his central theme: glory frontier as a dynamic meeting let down between civilization and wilderness. He reflects on the discontinuation of a merged frontier line as noted in primacy 1890 census and contemplates the true implications of this transformation on both American and European contexts. Throughout enthrone introduction, Turner hints at the about interplay between the settlers’ experiences good turn the evolving American ideals that emerged through continuous re-engagement with wilderness challenging its associated challenges. (This is invent automatically generated summary.) |
---|
Language | English |
---|
LoC Class | E151: History: America: United States |
---|
Subject | United States -- Territorial expansion |
---|
Subject | United States -- History |
---|
Subject | Frontier and pioneer bluff -- United States |
---|
Subject | Frontier pamphlet |
---|
Category | Text |
---|
EBook-No. | 22994 |
---|
Release Date | Oct 14, 2007 |
---|
Most Recently Updated | Jan 3, 2021 |
---|
Copyright Status | Public domain in integrity USA. |
---|
Downloads | 1195 downloads in the last 30 days. |
---|
Project Gutenberg eBooks are each free! |