• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: On Turner's trail : 100 years of writing western history
  • Contributor: Jacobs, Wilbur R. [Author]
  • imprint: Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, ©1994
    [S.l.]: HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 342 pages); illustrations
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780700631025; 070063102X
  • Keywords: Turner, Frederick Jackson 1861-1932 Influence ; Turner, Frederick Jackson ; Historiography ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Geschiedschrijving ; Geschichtsschreibung ; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century ; West (U.S.) Historiography ; West United States ; USA ; Weststaaten ; USA ; Frontier
  • Place of reproduction: [S.l.]: HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
  • Reproduction note: 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.
  • Access State: Restricted Access