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Frontier and Region: Essays in Honor of Martin Ridge

Book by Robert C. Ritchie, Paul Andrew Hutton, Martin Ridge; Huntington Library Press, 1997

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life--West (U.S.), Frontier Thesis, West (U.S.)--Discovery And Exploration, West (U.S.)--Historiography, West (U.S.)--History, West (U.S.)--Politics And Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...West U.S. -- Historiography. 6. Frontier thesis. I. Ridge, Martin. II. Ritchie...articulate defender of the Turner thesis and of the proposition that American...exceptionalism can best be explained by the frontier experience. He combined his strong...
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History, Frontier, and Section: Three Essays

Book by Frederick Jackson Turner; University of New Mexico Press, 1993

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life--United States, Frontier Thesis, Sectionalism (United States), United States--History--Philosophy, United States--Territorial Expansion, West (U.S.)--History

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...ISBN 0-8263-1432-5 pbk. 1. Frontier thesis. 2. West U.S. --History. 3...that would have validated his frontier thesis. 5 Critics of his thesis...geographers were quick to utilize the frontier thesis in their own studies. A filtered...
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The American Frontier

Book by Ray Allen Billington; Service Center for Teachers of History, 1958

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life--United States--Historiography, Frontier Thesis, Turner, Frederick Jackson--1861-1932

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Williamson, "A Sidelight on the Frontier Thesis: A New Turner Letter," Newberry...Stanley, "Western Canada and the Frontier Thesis," Canadian Historical Association...William A. Williams, "The Frontier Thesis and American Foreign Policy...
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Bush and Backwoods: A Comparison of the Troutier in Australia and the United States

Book by H. C. Allen; Michigan State University Press, 1959

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life, Frontier And Pioneer Life--Australia, Frontier Thesis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Frederick Jackson Turners frontier thesis might be broadly applied to...semisystematic, attempt to compare the frontier thesis in its application to Australia...light upon the validity of the frontier thesis, and even finally to hazard...
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The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome

Book by Steven K. Drummond, Lynn H. Nelson; M.E. Sharpe, 1994

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life--Rome, Frontier Thesis, Rome--Army, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1-56324-151-X 1. Frontier and pioneer life-- Rome. 2. Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. 3. Rome--Army. 4. Frontier thesis. I. Nelson, Lynn H. Lynn Harry , 1931-. II. Title. DG271.D78 1993 937.06--dc20 93-3650 CIP Printed in...

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Range Wars: The Plains Frontier of Boys Don't Cry

Journal article by Christina Dando; Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 23, 2005

Subjects:

Boys Don't Cry (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Frontier and pioneer life--Analysis, Frontier life--Analysis, Frontier thesis--Analysis

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Range Wars: The Plains Frontier of Boys Dont Cry. by Christina...opportunities that first drew them to the frontier. The film, Boys Dont Cry (2000), set...Plains landscape that is once again frontier, spatially as well as metaphorically...
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Beating a Dead Horse?: The Continuing Presence of Frederick Jackson Turner in Environmental and Western History

Journal article by T.R.C. Hutton; International Social Science Review, 2002

Subjects:

American West (Historical region)--Research, Frontier thesis, Historical research, Turner , Frederick Jackson--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...intimating a sympathy with Turners Frontier Thesis or pointing out an inordinate...accepted or rejected. Yet, Turners Frontier thesis is a curious anomaly in that...American scholarship. The "Frontier thesis" promoted the role of western...
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Reclaiming the Frontier: Oscar Micheaux as Black Turnerian

Journal article by Dan Moos; African American Review, Vol. 36, 2002

Subjects:

African American authors--Attitudes, African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African American filmmakers--Attitudes, African American filmmakers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Frontier and pioneer life--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Micheaux, Oscar--Attitudes, Micheaux, Oscar--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...Homestead Act of 1862 (1) and the Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner...basic principles of Turners Frontier Thesis, a theory so rhetorically powerful...ideological matrix of Turners Frontier Thesis through the improvement of...
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Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier

Journal article by Mark A. Eifler; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...toward the western frontier as a whole. The authors thesis seems to echo and...Jackson Turners famous frontier thesis. L. Scott Philyaws...critical role the frontier did play in early...Turners original thesis. Though the book...
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Frederic Remington's Image of the Frontier

Journal article by Robert L. Stevens; Social Education, Vol. 65, 2001

Subjects:

Frontier and pioneer life--Analysis, Native Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Remington, Frederic--Works, Turner, Frederick Jackson--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United States--Territorial expansion, Western States--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...presented his thesis about the meaning of the frontier in American history...the role of the frontier in forming the...it is Turners thesis that seems most...ARTICLE: THE TURNER THESIS These excerpts...Significance of the Frontier in American History...

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The Future of the American Frontier: Can One of Our Most Enduring National Myths, Much in Evidence in the Recent Presidential Campaign, Be Reinvented Yet Again?

Magazine article by John Tirman; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Winter 2009

Subjects:

Electioneering--Evaluation, Frontier thesis--Evaluation, Political campaigns--Evaluation, United States--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

The Future of the American Frontier: Can One of Our Most Enduring National...of American political culture, the frontier myth. Perhaps no other set of ideas...exploitation of, the dense complex of frontier images and values attached to the...
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Chicago and the Art of the Western Frontier

Magazine article by Judith A. Barter, Sarah E. Kelly; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 132, July 2003

Subjects:

American art--Collections and collecting, American art--Exhibitions, Art Institute of Chicago--Exhibitions, Art, American--Collections and collecting, Art, American--Exhibitions, Frontier and pioneer life--Portrayals, Frontier life--Portrayals, O'Keeffe, Georgia--Exhibitions

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...the Hall of Congresses (today, The Art Institute of Chicago) entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." Turners influential thesis was undoubtedly informed by the statistics from the 1890 U.S. Census Bureau, which declared...
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Frontier Myth: The Spirit of the American Pioneer Did Not Inspire Modern-Day Conservativism

Magazine article by Michael Lind; Washington Monthly, Vol. 36, June 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Right Nation (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...written at length about this topic, so Micklethwait and Wooldridge have no excuse for recycling the discredited "frontier" thesis at this late date. Indeed, as Britons they should recognize the close religious and cultural affinities between the...
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Living and Dying in the Planetary Frontier-land

Magazine article by Zygmunt Bauman; Tikkun, Vol. 17, March 2002

Subjects:

Future, International relations, Military weapons, National security, Terrorism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...and be secure indeed. Global Frontier-Land The new experience can be best summed up in the following thesis: the global space (that "space...has assumed the character of a frontier-land. In the frontier-land, agility and cunning count...
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Why We Love the Flag and the Frontier: American Patriotism May Seem Mawkish, but It Has Deep and Abiding Roots

Magazine article by Loyd Grossman; New Statesman, Vol. 130, December 17, 2001

Subjects:

Americans--Attitudes, Patriotism--Analysis, War on Terrorism, 2001---Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...beginning promoted democracy". Turner devised his thesis just as the frontier was being closed, and in response to it. How would...of which Turner spoke have usefully outlived the frontier; but now, Americans must reach beyond their frontier...

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Three Englishmen, a Brave German

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 6, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...solely a British operation, and that documentary proof of his thesis will never be revealed, even if it exists. Such is the nature...Nazis, so much so that he risked his life to sneak across the frontier to talk with Dulles and give him pilfered documents. His information...
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Prize Awards for Literary Losers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 1, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...adamantly as Alger Hiss once stood by his. And Mr. Bellesiles thesis really is implausible. Mr. Bellesiles claims that up through...American held off angry Indians and secured dinner for his frontier family by resorting to wholesome fisticuffs, perhaps heaving...
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How Nationalism Shaped America

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), November 1, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...contradictory features. "The American thesis, which the United States presents about...Lievan traces the "Jacksonian" and frontier tradition, developed by Ulster-Scots President...all from the experience of the American frontier, an experience which at one time or another...
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Knowledge Is Power? Assessing Military Intelligence

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 16, 2003

Subjects:

Keegan, John

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...spanning two centuries, which are intended to prove the authors thesis: Intelligence is important in war, but the outcome of war depends...Washington lie 40 miles from what Mr. Keegan calls Virginias frontier with the Union. The Virginia Military Institute is not a private...
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Embassy Row

Newspaper article by James Morrison; The Washington Times, May 16, 1996

Subjects:

Africa, Gingrich, Newt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...continent." Western leaders speak of Africa as "the next frontier," but that will remain "lip service until we address these...in African wildlife and recalled that he wrote his doctoral thesis on the education system in the former Belgian Congo. The...

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Frontier

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...civilization was not formulated until 1893, when Frederick Jackson Turner presented his thesis. Basically, Turner held that American democracy was shaped by the frontier, namely by the contest of the settler with the wilderness of the frontier. There...
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Turner, Frederick Jackson

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...controversy has raged for decades over the validity of his frontier thesis, few critics reject it entirely. The address and various short papers were reprinted in The Frontier in American History (1920). He collaborated with Edward...
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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to his father, who was ambassador there. His Harvard honors thesis on the British failure to judge the threat of Nazi Germany...inaugural, Kennedy set out his domestic program, known as the New Frontier: tax reform, federal aid to education, medical care for the...

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