The Frontier in American History eBook Frederick Jackson Turner
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The Frontier in American History eBook Frederick Jackson Turner
Recently there are so many different versions of books in the public domain on Amazon. And, I believe Amazon tends to lump all the reviews for them together. i.e. All books with the same title are lumped together regardless of the publisher. I've seen some awful editions of public domain books that people are selling -- full of typos and/or blatantly copied and pasted with little thought or effort regarding cover, layout, pagination, etc. Worse, some editions are incomplete. This version (ISBN: 9781726849975) was complete, clean, and error-free. The cover is attractive, but don't care for the matte finish so much. KDP books can look/feel a bit "cheap". It does include all of Turner's original footnotes but not the lengthy index, which the publisher says is "omitted in favor of space considerations." Still, good price, nice edition of this classic book, equals my recommendation here. Thanks.Product details
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The Frontier in American History eBook Frederick Jackson Turner Reviews
The Frontier in American History is one of the most important books highlighting the history and flow of peoples transplanting themselves from the Atlantic coast to the western expansions of a new nation. The Frontier in American History consists of thirteen essays with the most important of these being The significance of the frontier in American history. This essay was presented to the American Historical Association in 1893 where Frederick Jackson Turner laid out what was to be called his frontier thesis and the crowd was less than excited.
Turner's book consists of essays that argue his frontier thesis and writes in an eloquent, formal style and relates the history from colonization to the Midwest, or what he calls the middle west. The consistent theme is that the frontier made the men, not the other way around and that west ward expansion created a new nation unlike what had been seen before. These essays by Professor Turner was a significant achievement in the ideas of the progressive movement, with Turner's essays fueling the ideas that began to separate the new American School from the older and more traditional schools of thought. The free and abundant lands to the west drove men to create a new and unique world where self reliance was the hallmark of the frontier. According to Turner, "Western democracy included individual liberty, as well as equality. The frontiersman was impatient of restraints. He knew how to preserve order, even in the absence of legal authority."1 Professor Turner was a man of his day with the mindset and outlook of a man of northern European descent and wrote in that manner. His writings are full of the accomplishments of pioneering peoples from Europe by way of New England with scant mention of any other groups of peoples except the Indians which he mentions several times as savages. He seems to have a contempt for people from the South, although without malice as his reasoning seems to be that since slavery was mostly prohibited from the new western lands, the Southerner had no reasons for expanding west.
I found the book to be exceptionally thorough, although at times hard to read. Statistical data, usually strategically placed was anything but and at times thrown into the book in volume, overwhelming the reader. It was hard to believe that a book that went into this much depth, was less than 300 pages long. The thoroughness of the material makes it a must read for anyone in the field of history or interested enough in the history of the United States to get into the detail of step by step expansion of the United States into the west expanses of the continent. Each essay is worth reading alone but the inclusion of the preface and his explanation of why he decided to place all these essays in one volume is worth the time and effort in reading this authors landmark work. Turner ends this book with this excerpt from the final essay, Middle western pioneer democracy, which he contends is the legacy of the frontier,
"This then is the heritage of pioneer experience,--a passionate belief that a democracy was possible which should leave the individual a part to play in free society and not make him a cog in a machine operated from above; which trusted in the common man, in his tolerance, his ability to adjust differences with good humor, and to work out an American type from the contributions of all nations--a type for which he would fight against those who challenged it in arms, and for which in time of war he would make sacrifices, even the temporary sacrifice of individual freedom and his life, lest that freedom be lost forever."2
Bibliography
1.Turner, Frederick Jackson (2011-03-17). The Frontier in American History (p.164) Edition.
2.The Frontier in American History (p. 275).
Professor Turner taught history at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI and was perhaps the first American historian to formulate and describe the frontier expansion--known as "Manifest Destiny"--which started in President Andrew Jackson's administration and swept across the country to the Pacific Coast and beyond to Hawai'i, Guam, the Philippines and elsewhere. A pattern developed. Based on U. S. Government surveys establishing township and range lines, the land was first explored, and then settled. "Cookie cutter" local governments were established counties with county seats, counties and cities with representative government through public elections. Professor Turner's "Turner Thesis" became fundamental in understanding this entire phase of American History and the development of socio-economic and political institutions. It's basic, foundational reading.
This book is truly a classic, and made me realize one of the key factors in the development of America's unique culture -- its exceptionalism. One of the great things (many good) about kindle is getting books like this for free. This book really helps one understand how important the frontier was in building the US culture of achievement and independence. That is was written almost 100 years ago provides an interesting historic perspective. Although Turner's hope that educational centers would continue the development of a new frontier appears to not quite prescient, I think his analysis and writing were excellent. This is one of my favorite books.
A later note. I was reading a short piece on Eisenhower about his concern for America in the 1950's because he understood as Turner pointed that the Frontier of America was no longer acting as a safety valve. It is interesting that we added the 49th and 50th States in his administration. He had read Turner's book. This shows how much influence this book as had in recent history.
Turner elaborates his thesis that the continuously rolling settlement of America from an Atlantic foothold across the entire continent is one of the most powerful and comprehensive causes of the unique success of the American Experiment. It is utterly persuasive. I read it now because when it was assigned as an essential reading in a history course in 1967, I failed to do so. It suffers nothing from having been presented initially, in brief, at an AHA Conference in Chicago in 1893. Thus, the originality and the scholarship are preserved unsullied by the political correctness which calls the application of today's group-think orthodoxy to our past good history. It is not, but Turner wrote good history.
I think that it has a lot to say for today (2017). In 1898, the frontier closed, today, we're seeking to go back to the wild west and the open spaces, which are not tamed an roped into settle society. The western ethic still appears to dominate our psychic. There are numerous blogs and editorials available from this book, for todays society.
Recently there are so many different versions of books in the public domain on . And, I believe tends to lump all the reviews for them together. i.e. All books with the same title are lumped together regardless of the publisher. I've seen some awful editions of public domain books that people are selling -- full of typos and/or blatantly copied and pasted with little thought or effort regarding cover, layout, pagination, etc. Worse, some editions are incomplete. This version (ISBN 9781726849975) was complete, clean, and error-free. The cover is attractive, but don't care for the matte finish so much. KDP books can look/feel a bit "cheap". It does include all of Turner's original footnotes but not the lengthy index, which the publisher says is "omitted in favor of space considerations." Still, good price, nice edition of this classic book, equals my recommendation here. Thanks.
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