Place of reproduction:
[S.l.]: HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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Electronic reproduction
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Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-330) and index
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Description:
Turner's essay of 1893: the frontier as a molding force -- Turner's apprenticeship: the waspish trail -- The making of a historian: Yankee perspectives -- Developing a ruling theory -- Explaining colonial American history -- Explaining agricultural history -- The twentieth century: politics, urbanization, and world government -- Turner and the threats of the twentieth century -- Turner's shadow on world frontiers -- The "realwestern" history: its impact upon generations of students -- The emergence of Frederick Merk -- Reverse environmentalism and other teaching themes -- Merk takes the flag --The Billington era -- The challenge of Richard White to the Turnerian legacy -- Turnerian echoes in William Cronon's Nature's metropolis -- After a century: minefields along the Turnerian trail.