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Shaping the American Character: The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner
出版Now and Then Reader LLC, 2012-01-10
主題History / United States / General
ISBN19378531019781937853105
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YijTHaXG974C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋More than a hundred years after it was first articulated, Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis" remains one of the key interpretations of American history. Turner argued that the European heritage of Americans was less important in understanding the country they had made than their own experience in settling a continent. It was the circumstances of life on the frontierin fact a succession of frontiers that moved inexorably westwardthat were a determining influence on American character and institutions. Turner read this paper propounding his thesis at the meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, July 12, 1893, as part of the World's Columbian Exposition. It was timely, he suggested, because the Census of 1890 had announced the closing of the frontier in the United States and thus the end of an important stage of American development.