Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner
Subtitle: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essays
Contributors: John Mack Faragher (Editor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 8, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780300075939
Subjects: American history; Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Philosophy Of History; U.S. History - Westward Expansion; History; History - U.S.; English; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General; Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier thesis; Sectionalism (United States); United States; West (U.S.)
First sentence: It has been more than a century since Frederick Jackson Turner first read his paper "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before an audience of some two hundred historians assembled in Chicago for the "World's Columbian Exposition," the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of Europeans' discovery of the Americas.