The Turner thesis concerning the role of the frontier in American history.
By: Edited and with an introd. by George Rogers Taylor.
Edition: 3d ed.
Series: Problems in American civilization
Publisher: Heath
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Lexington, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932.; Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography.; Frontier thesis.; United States -- Territorial expansion -- Historiography.
Table of contents: title: The significance of the frontier in American history, by F. J. Turner.; title: Contributions of the West to American democracy, by F. J. Turner.; title: Sections or classes? By L. M. Hacker.; title: Political institutions and the frontier, by B. F. Wright, Jr.; title: The frontier and American institutions; a criticism of the Turner theory, by G. W. Pierson.; title: The American frontier, frontier of what? By C. J. H. Hayes.; title: Frederick Jackson Turner, by A. Craven.; title: The frontier and the 400 year boom, by W. P. Webb.; title: A meaning for Turner's frontier, democracy in the Old Northwest, by S. Elkins and E. McKitrick.; title: Frontier democracy; social aspects, by R. A. Billington.; title: Suggestions for additional reading (p. 185-188)