Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History and Other Essays - Softcover

Turner, Frederick Jackson; Faragher, John Mack

 
9780300075939: Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History and Other Essays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300075936 ISBN 13: 9780300075939
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

“The best assembly of Turner’s essays now available. Faragher’s introductory and concluding commentaries add considerably to the import of the book.”—Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles

 

“Still ranks as the most influential piece of writing on American history.”—Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer, A Notable Book of 1994

 

“Faragher’s invaluable afterword . . . provides a judicious introduction to the issues that divide the revisionist New Western Historians from Turner and his disciples.”—Michael Kammen, FanFare

 

Frederick Jackson Turner is often considered to be the most influential American historian of the century, and his views continue to shape the controversial field of Western American history. In this book, John Mack Faragher introduces and comments on ten of Turner’s most significant essays, concluding with a comment on the recent debate over Turner’s legacy and his effect on Americans’ understanding of their national character.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Mack Faragher is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail and Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, both published by Yale University Press.
 

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300075936
ISBN 13 
9780300075939
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
255
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