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Frontier Thesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Frontier Thesis is the conclusion put forth by Frederick Jackson Turner that the wellsprings of American exceptionalism created freedom, constantly named as civilization, "breaking the bond of c...
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summary from source: ... The Frontier Thesis or Turner Thesis is the conclusion of Frederick Jackson Turner that the wellsprings of American exceptionalism and vitality have always been the American frontier, the region between urbanized, civilized society and the untamed...
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summary from source: ... Frederick Jackson Turner is best known as the father of the "Frontier (or Turner) Thesis," but he also generated a "Sectional Thesis" which had a considerable impact on historians and historiography. In addition, although little-remembered for working...
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Turner offered his frontier thesis as both an analysis of the past and a warning about the future. If the frontier had been so essential to the development of American culture and democracy, then what would befall them as the frontier closed?
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Divine 530-531 (on Turnerís frontier thesis) ; Supplement: Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; According to Turner, how has the existence of a frontier shaped the American character?
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What "Progressive" assessments of history appear in Turner's thesis? Does he identify any threats to that progress? ... How does Turner's thesis reflect these changes, try to make sense of them, or sound a warning call for ways in which America might be losing its way as a result of the changes?
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Frederick Jackson Turner, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY ... In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated...
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