 American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society,...  Annual Report of the American Historical Association - Страница 198написао/ла American Historical Association - 1894Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | De Witt Douglas Kilgore - 2003 - 308 страница
...beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its...nation is not the Atlantic coast, it is the great West" (Frederick J. Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History [Ann Arbor, Mich.: University... | |
 | John Taliaferro, Charles Marion Russell - 2003 - 350 страница
...over again on the frontier," he wrote. "This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its...furnish the forces dominating American character." But the whole process by which the frontier fomented democracy hinged on one condition: free land.... | |
 | Robert L. Dorman - 2003 - 386 страница
...hopeful expectations. By the 1920s, few American intellectuals could dispute Turner's contention that "the true point of view in the history of this nation...is not the Atlantic Coast, it is the great West," or deny that "Middletown" (Muncie, Indiana) was the typical American city. The assay of Midwestern... | |
 | Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski - 2004 - 440 страница
...large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West," he wrote, and, even more forcefully, "The true point of view in the history of this nation...is not the Atlantic coast, it is the Great West." And like all of them, he imagined that the westward movement exemplified a struggle between "savagery... | |
 | Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski - 2004 - 436 страница
...large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West," he wrote, and, even more forcefully, "The true point of view in the history of this nation...is not the Atlantic coast, it is the Great West." And like all of them, he imagined that the westward movement exemplified a struggle between "savagery... | |
 | Victor M. Ortíz-González - 2004 - 224 страница
...beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its...furnish the forces dominating American character. (3) In the traditional image of the term, evoked by Turner, frontiers are areas where the uncivilized... | |
 | Elizabeth B. Crist Assistant Professor of Musicology University of Texas at Austin - 2005 - 267 страница
...with westward expansion, arguing that "this perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its...furnish the forces dominating American character," democracy chief among them.13 "The most important effect of the frontier," Turner claimed, "has been... | |
 | James Irwin Kruger - 2005 - 576 страница
...leaps! The shapes arise! Shapes ever projecting other shapes. - Poet Walt Whitman, Song of the Broadaxe Expansion westward with its new opportunities, its...furnish the forces dominating American character. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner Other novels by James Irwin Kruger Stranger in the Mirror The Secret... | |
 | Robert Thacker, C. L. Higham - 2006 - 250 страница
...beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its...nation is not the Atlantic coast, it is the Great West — In this advance, the frontier is the outer edge of the wave - the meeting point between savagery... | |
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