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Frederick Jackson Turner: Closing Of The Frontier
Part 1 of Paper ....s, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development." ( Turner, p. 27)
An introduction by Harold Simonson analyzes and describes the author and his influential essay in historical perspective.
Turner was born in 1861, one ye.... Part 2 of Paper .... that "the frontier divided the primitive from the civilized, the natural from the institutional, the savage from the cultured, the elemental from the complex." (Simonson, p.9) Though at first, the wilderness mastered the pioneer, the pioneer slowly transformed the wilderness. The pioneer underwent a process that "Americanized" him and freed him from his dependence on Europe. Subduing nature became the Americans' manifest destiny.
Turner said that the frontier was a process in which men confr.... |
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