On Turner's Trail: 100 Years of Writing Western History"From a master historian, this is one of the most important contributions in recent years to American historiography. It adds to a penetrating analysis of the development of Turner's thought a searching consideration of the influence of his ideas, an investigation of the advocacy and criticism that they have sparked, and an estimate of their enduring importance. Handsomely produced and illustrated". -- Choice. |
Contents
The Trailhead | 1 |
The Waspish Trail | 16 |
Yankee Perspectives | 34 |
Clearing the Trails in Frontier History | 59 |
Explaining Colonial American History | 77 |
Explaining Agricultural History | 92 |
World Frontiers and Sections | 101 |
Turner and the Threats of the Twentieth Century | 125 |
Merk Takes the Flag | 179 |
The Billington Era | 188 |
New Trails and New Challenges | 201 |
Turnerian Echoes in William Cronons Natures Metropolis | 213 |
Minefields along the Turnerian Trail | 228 |
EPILOGUE | 237 |
TURNERS LECTURE ON WASHINGTON | 249 |
TURNER AS A TEACHERTESTIMONIALS | 255 |
Turners Shadow on World Frontiers | 137 |
The Emergence of Frederick Merk | 160 |
Reverse Environmentalism | 170 |
NOTES | 277 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE | 329 |
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