The frontier in American historyH. Holt, 1920 - 375 halaman The author argues that the availability of cheap land in the American West is the lens through which the history of the United States should be viewed. |
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... populations . The most significant thing about the American frontier is , that it lies at the hither edge of free land . In the census reports it is treated as the margin of that settle- ment which has a density of two or more to the ...
... populations . The most significant thing about the American frontier is , that it lies at the hither edge of free land . In the census reports it is treated as the margin of that settle- ment which has a density of two or more to the ...
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... population on the extreme confines of the State , in order to gain space for its development . Hardly is a new State or Territory formed before the same principle manifests itself again and gives rise to a further emigration ; and so is ...
... population on the extreme confines of the State , in order to gain space for its development . Hardly is a new State or Territory formed before the same principle manifests itself again and gives rise to a further emigration ; and so is ...
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... population . These States have been sending farmers to advance the frontier on the plains , and have themselves begun to turn to intensive farming and to manufacture . A decade before this , Ohio had shown the same transition stage ...
... population . These States have been sending farmers to advance the frontier on the plains , and have themselves begun to turn to intensive farming and to manufacture . A decade before this , Ohio had shown the same transition stage ...
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... population . The effect reached back from the frontier and affected profoundly the Atlantic coast and even the Old World . But the most important effect of the frontier has been in the promotion of democracy here and in Europe . As has ...
... population . The effect reached back from the frontier and affected profoundly the Atlantic coast and even the Old World . But the most important effect of the frontier has been in the promotion of democracy here and in Europe . As has ...
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... population in the West which this gentleman ought to fear . It is the energy which the mountain breeze and western habits impart to those emigrants . They are regen- erated , politically I mean , sir . They soon become working ...
... population in the West which this gentleman ought to fear . It is the energy which the mountain breeze and western habits impart to those emigrants . They are regen- erated , politically I mean , sir . They soon become working ...
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