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An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the Frontier in American History (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the Frontier in American History (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United
States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the
American canon. That is a testament to Turner's powers of creative
synthesis; in a few short pages, he succeeded in redefining the way
in which whole generations of Americans understood the manner in
which their country was shaped, and their own character moulded, by
the frontier experience. It is largely thanks to Turner's influence
that the idea of America as the home of a sturdily independent
people - one prepared, ultimately, to obtain justice for themselves
if they could not find it elsewhere - was born. The impact of these
ideas can still be felt today: in many Americans' suspicion of "big
government," in their attachment to guns - even in Star Trek's
vision of space as "the final frontier." Turner's thesis may now be
criticised as limited (in its exclusion of women) and over-stated
(in its focus on the western frontier). That it redefined an issue
in a highly impactful way - and that it did so exceptionally
eloquently - cannot be doubted.
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