| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - 1822 - 916 halaman
...the census reports."- This brief official statement marks the closing of a great historic movement. Up to our own day American history has been in a large...of American settlement westward, explain American development. Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital 1 The... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1894 - 192 halaman
...the census reports."2 This brief official statement marks the closing of a great historic movement. Up to our own day American history has been in a large...of American settlement westward, explain American development. Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital 1 The... | |
| Martin Heusser, Gudrun Grabher - 2002 - 238 halaman
...frontier no longer existed. The disappearance of the frontier was highly significant, as until then the existence of "an area of free land, its continuous...recession, and the advance of American settlement westward" had been the major defining feature of American national development (Turner 2). But already at this... | |
| H.W. Brands - 2002 - 383 halaman
...and the development of American institutions. "The existence of an area of free land," he asserted, "its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." The frontier, which he defined as "the meeting point between savagery and civilization,"... | |
| Diana L. Eck - 2003 - 288 halaman
...territory, had heen definitive for American consciousness. "Up to our own day American history has heen in large degree the history of the colonization of the...area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advancement of American settlement westward, explain American development," said Turner. "And now .... | |
| Peter C. Rollins - 2003 - 708 halaman
...in American History," which has provided grist for study and argument ever since. In it he states, "Up to our own day American history has been in a...the history of the colonization of the Great West. ... In the case of most nations . . . development has occurred in a limited area; and if the nation... | |
| Greg Ward - 2004 - 436 halaman
...Frederick Jackson Turner, in Tiie Significance of the Frontier in American History, will argue that 'the existence of an area of free land, its continuous...of American settlement westward, explain American development'. His The Reliance Building, erected during the early 1890s. was one of Chicago's first... | |
| Melanie Louise Simo - 2003 - 332 halaman
...westward movement. And he went on exploring the implications of his controversial thesis for years: "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous...of American settlement westward, explain American development." 4 Unpersuaded, some historians demanded clearer def1nitions of terms. 5 Others might... | |
| Glenn M. Harden - 2003 - 176 halaman
...of these "Progressive historians." His frontier thesis, first advanced in 1893, boldly argued that "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous...recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explained] American development."9 Underlying this thesis lay a stress on the importance of environmental... | |
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