Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essays - Softcover

Turner, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300075936 ISBN 13: 9780300075939

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1999

Synopsis

“The best assembly of Turner’s essays now available. Faragher’s introductory and concluding commentaries add considerably to the import of the book.”―Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles

 

“Still ranks as the most influential piece of writing on American history.”―Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer, A Notable Book of 1994

 

“Faragher’s invaluable afterword . . . provides a judicious introduction to the issues that divide the revisionist New Western Historians from Turner and his disciples.”―Michael Kammen, FanFare

 

Frederick Jackson Turner is often considered to be the most influential American historian of the century, and his views continue to shape the controversial field of Western American history. In this book, John Mack Faragher introduces and comments on ten of Turner’s most significant essays, concluding with a comment on the recent debate over Turner’s legacy and his effect on Americans’ understanding of their national character.

About this title

About the Author:

John Mack Faragher is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail and Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, both published by Yale University Press. 

From Library Journal:

Editor Faragher (history, Yale Univ.) has assembled ten of Turner's writings into one source. One hundred years after Turner's Significance of the Frontier sent a shock wave through academia, his writings continue to spark historical debate. Faragher introduces the essays and concludes the work with a discussion of American frontier historiography. Turner believed that America needed to channel its expansionistic energy into developing distinct regional identities. These regional differences, he felt, would add variety to American homogeneity, sparking growth and creativity. Through his writings, Turner attempted to convince his colleagues of the importance of studying place as well as events throughout history in order to capture the sense of what it means to be an American. Recommended for academic libraries supporting research in American history.
Terri L. Summey, Emporia State Univ., Kan.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0300075936
• ISBN 13: 9780300075939
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Faragher John Mack