Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner

副标题: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essays

ISBN: 9780300075939

出版社: Yale University Press

出版年: 1999-2-8

页数: 276

定价: USD 22.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Frederick Jackson Turner is often considered to be the most influential American historian office 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.