America's frontier heritage /
Analysis of the attitudes and behavioral traits judged to be most distinctively "American" by European travelers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Weighs the pros and cons of Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis".
| Основен автор: | Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
[1966]
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| Издание: | [1st ed.]. |
| Серия: |
Histories of the American frontier
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Съдържание:
- The history of a theory
- Why and how pioneers moved westward
- The frontier and the American character
- The frontier: cradle of barbarism or civilization?
- The structure of frontier society
- Frontier democracy: political aspects
- Frontier democracy: social aspects
- The economic impact of the frontier
- The frontier and the migratory compulsion
- The frontier and American behavioral patterns
- The persistence of frontier traits.