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Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932)

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Born in Portage, Wisconsin, Frederick Jackson Turner graduated from the University of Wisconsin and in 1890 received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. From 1889 to 1910, he taught at Wisconsin University, where he helped build an excellent graduate history program. In 1910 he accepted a mehr anzeigen chair at Harvard University, where he remained for the next 14 years. In 1927 he became a senior research associate at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Turner wrote relatively little, but his 1893 paper on the link between the land and democracy---"The Significance of the Frontier in American History"---affected the course of American scholarship and marked him as one of the most influential and renowned scholars in the profession. The year after his death, his study in sectionalism, The Significance of Sections in American History, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history. Turner once described U.S. history as "a series of social evolutions recurring in differing geographic basins across a raw continent." He claimed to derive his hypothesis from his early training in medieval history, where he learned about the relationships between people and their environment and saw "the interplay of economic, social and geographic factors in the politics, institutions, ideals and life of a nation and its relations with its neighbors." Turner's views have always been subject to intense scrutiny and criticism, not least among historians of the American West today. Yet the fact that his hypothesis continues to be tested is testimony to its penetrating influence. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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This book is an essay by the author whose main controversial thesis is that the American western frontier is really the only truly American contribution to American history. This book has 12 other essays, either supporting or arguing against Turner's thesis. A minor thesis of Turner is that frontiers, in all countries, are settled by the common people, the discontents. He cites examples of Greece, Rome, and Germany, among others. To me, these essays are really more historiography than history. I purchased this book on Kindle after unearthing the original essay dated 1974 that was too faded to read… (mehr)
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Tess_W | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 15, 2023 |
I picked this up for a conventional history book. Not looking for anything crazy, just to fill in some of the gaps between the colonies and the wild west. Fairly white-washed, but not unusual for the time it was written. good for what it is.
 
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abeckert23 | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 24, 2015 |
A seminal work in American historical research, Turner's view is controversial today. It certainly was affirmed by the vast majority of Americans when initially published - but we're in the "America has problems" era where all that has passed is subject to second-guessing. Turner's view is easily defended by one's own experience and the experience of the country. We Americans have always maintained the attitude that space is available somewhere for us to expand or to begin again or to start our lives over. It's a fact. Turner only verifies this feeling through research. Those who denigrate Turner's thesis see nothing special in America from any other country - the frontier has had no effect on it. Bull.… (mehr)
 
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JVioland | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 14, 2014 |
Turner's "frontier hypothesis" is a vital part of American historiography, and it's well set forth in the first few chapters of this book. Too many of the later chapters, though, are simply padding consisting of university commencement speeches and other "popular" writing. And as far as Turner's subscribing to the idea of pax Americana in the concluding chapter, which is partly boosterism for America's intervention into the then-ongoing First World War – well, a couple good correctives would be Frederick Merk's Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History and William Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy.… (mehr)
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