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Frederick Jackson Turner was the dean of American historians in his time. He originated, and he and his students popularized, the Frontier Hypothesis of American record: that the principal driving drive in the introduction of American contemporary society and politics was the encounter with the frontier, conceived of as a vast part of essentially free land, a seemingly limitless resource available to all comers. This booklet, The Frontier in North american Background, is a collection of essays Turner composed between your 1890s and 1918 - itself a highly dynamic time in American history, a spot which he addresses from the point of view of his ideas about the frontier in various ways. As all catalogs should do, Turner's writing shows the influence of his time. He will pay virtually no focus on the oppression inflicted upon Native People in america, and despite offering considerable time to the relationship of the introduction of the frontier with the problem of slavery, he gives hardly any space to the account of slavery itself. This should be no cause for shock; he is, if anything, slightly better on these issues than many intellectuals of his time. The value of his book - which is a very valuable work - lies in his potential to synthesize the great migratory activity of Europeans and People in america westward across the North American continent into a coherent view of the nature of that activity, the ways in which the peoples engaged evolved in response to it, and the effects it got on the long-term development of the United States. The techniques he describes have never ended. We are still dealing with the effects of the long engagement with the frontier in lots of ways. Enjoy!

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