On Turner's trail : 100 years of writing western history /

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Should Frederick Jackson Turner be revered as "the father of western history" or reviled as a misguided advocate of a frontier spirit and rugged individualism that denied cultural diversity and produced widespread environmental destruction? Dividing into campus over the issue, western hist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacobs, Wilbur R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©1994.
Temas:
Turner, Frederick Jackson, > 1861-1932 > Influence.
Turner, Frederick Jackson > Influencia.
Turner, Frederick Jackson, > 1861-1932
History of the Americas.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Historiography
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Geschichtsschreibung
Geschiedschrijving.
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
West United States
USA > Weststaaten
Frontier
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Turner's essay of 1893: the frontier as a molding force
  • Turner's apprenticeship: the waspish trail
  • The making of a historian: Yankee perspectives
  • Developing a ruling theory
  • Explaining colonial American history
  • Explaining agricultural history
  • The twentieth century: politics, urbanization, and world government
  • Turner and the threats of the twentieth century
  • Turner's shadow on world frontiers
  • The "realwestern" history: its impact upon generations of students
  • The emergence of Frederick Merk
  • Reverse environmentalism and other teaching themes
  • Merk takes the flag
  • The Billington era
  • The challenge of Richard White to the Turnerian legacy
  • Turnerian echoes in William Cronon's Nature's metropolis
  • After a century: minefields along the Turnerian trail.

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