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Frontier thesis, West (U.S.)--History, Sectionalism (United States) , United States--History--Philosophy, United States--Territorial expansion, Frontier and pioneer life--United States.
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1993
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E179.5.T957 1993eb
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Frontier thesis, West (U.S.)--History, Sectionalism (United States) , United States--History--Philosophy, United States--Territorial expansion, Frontier and pioneer life--United States.
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Frederick Jackson Turner in his office at the Wisconsin Historical Society quarters in the State Capitol. (Courtesy, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, WHi(X3)35004.)
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History, Frontier, and Section
THREE ESSAYS BY Frederick Jackson Turner
Introduction by Martin Ridge
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS Albuquerque
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932. History, frontier, and section: three essays / by Frederick Jackson Turner; introduction by Martin Ridge.1st ed. p. cm. Contents: The significance of history (1891) The significance of the frontier in American history (1893) The significance of the section in American history (1925). ISBN 0-8263-1426-0. ISBN 0-8263-1432-5 (pbk.) 1. Frontier thesis. 2. West (U.S.)History. 3. Sectionalism (United States). 4. United StatesHistoryPhilosophy. 5.United StatesTerritorial expansion. 6. Frontier and pioneer lifeUnited States. I. Ridge, Martin. II. Title. E179.5 T957 1993 973.8dc20 92-42709 CIP
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Introduction 1993 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. First edition.
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For historians who enjoy reading about how their distinguished predecessors thought and wrote about the past.
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Contents
Introduction
Martin Ridge
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The Significance of History (1891)
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The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
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The Significance of Section in American History (1925)
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Illustrations
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Introduction
Martin Ridge
Although a time may come when American historians are no longer interested in the scholarly contributions of Frederick Jackson Turner, that era has not yet arrived. Over the past three quarters of a century his work has received more critical attention than that of any historian since William Bradford.1 His studies on the role of sections in an understanding of American culture and politics and on the importance of the frontier to American national development still cast a long shadow across several scholarly disciplines.2 Moreover, many of Turner's ideasoften in a thoroughly diluted fashionhave entered into the mainstream of national popular thought. So remarkable has been the impact of Turner's initial frontier essay on both the academic and lay public that it has been termed a masterpiece.3 If for no other reason, this justifies the publication of the following three essays, which say much about a master historian and American history.
Yet, almost from the start, criticisms of Turner's work mounted as steadily as his popularity.4 Many historians of the post-World War II era feel Turner, who did not write many books, was not prolific enough, although he wrote more than a score of articles. In fact, he has been viewed as something of a professional failure, never managing to complete the serious monograph that would have validated his frontier thesis.5 Critics of his thesis, however, have had a hard time escaping from his paradigm.6 In an odd turn of
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events, current critics of Turner have made his name something of a household word by attacking his frontier ideas in the pages of the New York Times Magazine (March 18, 1990) and U.S. News and World Report (May 21, 1990), presenting his thought as if he were alive, rather than deceased for more than half a century. Turner's views on sectionalism have also achieved something of a life of their own, having been taken up and modified by geographers, sociologists, political scientists, and cultural historians.7
An understanding of Frederick Jackson Turner's historical studies is possible only in the context of his life. He always insisted that his personal experience profoundly influenced his scholarly thinking. Turner was a college professor. His status in the profession, his role in the university, and the influence of his life on the evolution of his thought are crucial to understanding his scholarship. His generation of historians accepted evolution, believed in progress, trusted in democracy, and held that the social and economic problems of a modernizing society could be resolved through rational means. They were dedicated to science and sought the professionalization of history as a scholarly discipline instead of its being the home of an amateur literati. Turner shared these beliefs.
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