The Frontier in American HistoryThe Floating Press, 1 Mei 2014 - 333 halaman The frontier has always been a quintessential part of what makes America unique, and according to renowned historian Frederick Jackson Turner, it did more than stoke the imaginations of early pioneers -- it actually helped to shape American democracy and institutions. This engaging volume explains and expands on Turner's Frontier Thesis, one of the most significant concepts in the study of American history. |
Dari dalam buku
Hasil 1-5 dari 39
Halaman 7
... slavery struggle, which is made so exclusive an object of attention by writers like Professor von Holst, occupies its important place in American history because of its relation to westward expansion. In this advance, the frontier is ...
... slavery struggle, which is made so exclusive an object of attention by writers like Professor von Holst, occupies its important place in American history because of its relation to westward expansion. In this advance, the frontier is ...
Halaman 25
... slavery question. But when American history comes to be rightly viewed it will be seen that the slavery question is an incident. In the period from the end of the first half of the present century to the close of the Civil War slavery ...
... slavery question. But when American history comes to be rightly viewed it will be seen that the slavery question is an incident. In the period from the end of the first half of the present century to the close of the Civil War slavery ...
Halaman 29
... slavery. Before this process revealed its results the western portion of the South, which was akin to Pennsylvania in stock, society, and industry, showed tendencies to fall away from the faith of the fathers into internal improvement ...
... slavery. Before this process revealed its results the western portion of the South, which was akin to Pennsylvania in stock, society, and industry, showed tendencies to fall away from the faith of the fathers into internal improvement ...
Halaman 30
... slavery on the western frontier does not diminish the truth of this statement; it proves the truth of it. Slavery was a sectional trait that would not down, but in the West it could not remain sectional. It was the greatest of ...
... slavery on the western frontier does not diminish the truth of this statement; it proves the truth of it. Slavery was a sectional trait that would not down, but in the West it could not remain sectional. It was the greatest of ...
Halaman 33
... slaves that adhered to them. Such would, and in no long time must, be the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime and to suppress as an evil the command and blessing of Providence, "Increase and multiply." Such would be the happy ...
... slaves that adhered to them. Such would, and in no long time must, be the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime and to suppress as an evil the command and blessing of Providence, "Increase and multiply." Such would be the happy ...
Isi
4 | |
6 | |
38 | |
III The Old West | 61 |
IV The Middle West | 110 |
V The Ohio Valley in American History | 139 |
VI The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History | 158 |
VII The Problem of the West | 184 |
VIII Dominant Forces in Western Life | 200 |
IX Contributions of the West to American Democracy | 220 |
X Pioneer Ideals and the State University | 245 |
XI The West and American Ideals | 265 |
XII Social Forces in American History | 286 |
XIII Middle Western Pioneer Democracy | 308 |
Endnotes | 332 |
Edisi yang lain - Lihat semua
Istilah dan frasa umum
acres advance agricultural Alleghanies Alleghany Mountains American democracy Andrew Jackson Atlantic capital cities civilization coast colonial common Connecticut conquest constituted decade demands democratic dominant East eastern economic eighteenth century element England Europe expansion fact fall line farm farmer forces forest free lands freedom French frontier towns frontiersmen furnished German grants ideals Illinois immigrants important increasing Indian individual industrial influence institutions interests interior internal improvements Jackson Jacksonian democracy Kansas Kentucky labor Lake leaders legislation Massachusetts Middle Region Middle West migration Mississippi Valley Missouri Mountains movement nation North northern numbers Ohio Valley Old Northwest Old West organization passed Pennsylvania period Piedmont pioneer democracy Plains political population prairies proprietors province quit-rents railroad Revolution river Scotch-Irish seaboard settled settlement settlers Shenandoah Valley significance slavery social society soil South Carolina Southern struggle tendencies territory trade United Upland South uplands vast Virginia westward wilderness Wisconsin