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The frontier in American history / by Turner, Frederick Jackson,1861-1932.(CARDINAL)149878;
Subjects: Frontier thesis.;
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Frederick Jackson Turner : a reference guide / by Mattson, Vernon E.(CARDINAL)178476; Marion, William E.(CARDINAL)178475;
Includes bibliographies and index.
Subjects: Bibliographies.; Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932; Frontier thesis;
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Historians against history; the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 by Noble, David W.(CARDINAL)141434;
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 181-187)Flight from feudalism: the new world and the Puritan covenant -- George Bancroft: Nature and the fulfillment of the covenant -- Frederick Jackson Turner: The machine and the loss of the covenant -- Charles A. Beard: Industrialism and the covenant restored -- Carl Becker: Europe and the roots of the covenant -- Vernon Louis Parrington: The covenant and the Jeffersonian Jeremiad -- Beard: The covenant threatened by institutional power -- Becker: The covenant replaced by civilization -- Daniel Boorstin: Blackstone and the conservation of the American covenant -- The end of the covenant and the beginning of American history.
Subjects: Frontier thesis.; Frontier and pioneer life;
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The frontier in American history / by Turner, Frederick Jackson,1861-1932.(CARDINAL)149878;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier thesis.;
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The last frontier / by Webb, Melody,1946-(CARDINAL)179439;
Bibliography: pages 359-394.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier thesis.;
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Gunfighter nation : the myth of the frontier in twentieth-century America / by Slotkin, Richard,1942-(CARDINAL)153866;
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier thesis.; Popular culture;
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The American frontier / by Barr, Roger,1951-(CARDINAL)364226;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Examines the history of the formative years of the United States, focusing on westward expansion and the role of the frontier in shaping the new nation.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier thesis;
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Gunfighter nation : the myth of the frontier in twentieth-century America / by Slotkin, Richard,1942-(CARDINAL)153866;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 767-828) and index.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier thesis.; Popular culture; Western films;
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The end of the myth : from the frontier to the border wall in the mind of America / by Grandin, Greg,1962-author.(CARDINAL)660301;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-352) and index."Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation--democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America has a new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history--from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America's constant expansion--fighting wars and opening markets--served as a "gate of escape," helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country's problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : fleeing forward -- All that space -- The alpha and the omega -- A Caucasian democracy -- The safety valve -- Are you ready for all these wars? -- The true relief -- The outer edge -- The pact of 1898 -- Fortress on the frontier -- A psychological twist -- Society became atomic -- A demonic suction tube -- More, more, more -- The new preëmptor -- The desert is a big place -- Epilogue : the significance of the wall in American history.
Subjects: Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932; Frontier thesis.; Borderlands; National characteristics, American.; Exceptionalism; Nationalism;
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Edmund Pendleton Gaines and frontier problems, 1801-1849 by Silver, James W.(James Wesley),1907-1988.(CARDINAL)172721;
Subjects: Biographies.; Gaines, Edmund Pendleton, 1777-1849.; Old State Library Collection.;
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