Download A Macat Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" AudioBook Free
It was the huge frontier stretching out out to the western world of the developed land on the UNITED STATES continent that molded the American character - and the course of US history. That is the argument in historian Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 article, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". Anthologized and reprinted often, it offered historians a fresh lens with which to investigate america. Turner argues that in interacting with both the wilderness and Local People in the usa, settlers on the frontier developed organizations and character traits quite different from Europe. The West's surplus of "free land", Turner implies, helped America turn into a country of monetary opportunity, where democracy and individualism could flourish. Turner's work captured the creativeness of ordinary People in the usa. Countless tv shows, films, novels, and a good theme area - Disney World's Frontierland - have based mostly their depictions of the American West upon this important essay. You can find out more about how exactly Frederick Jackson Turner's ideas have been challenged and applied - and how his work has impacted thinkers in other academics disciplines - by exploring further in the Macat Collection. Macat. Learn better. Think smarter. Aim higher.
