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Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner
John Mack Faragher
其他書名
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History", and Other Essays
出版
H. Holt
, 1995
主題
History / United States / General
ISBN
080504244X
9780805042443
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o8guPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In 1893 a young Frederick Jackson Turner stood before the American Historical Association and delivered his famous frontier thesis. To a less than enthusiastic audience, he argued that "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development"; that this frontier accounted for American democracy and character; and that the frontier had closed forever with uncertain consequences for the American future. Despite the indifference of Turner's first audience, his essay would soon prove to be the single most influential piece of writing on American history, with extraordinary impact both in intellectual circles and in popular literature. Within a few years his views had become the dominant interpretation of the American past.
