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Westward expansion;: A history of the American frontier

History

BILLINGTON, Ray Allen

Americas

Macmillan

Offers new viewpoints on the Turner hypothesis and reappraises the Indian's cultural and economic contributions to America's development

Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier

Pearson College Div

The hypothesis advanced in Frederick Jackson Turner's famous 1893 essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, has been debated by three generations of scholars. The pioneering experience, Turner suggested, accounted for some of the distinctive characteristics of the American people: during three centuries of expansion their attitudes toward democracy, nationalism and individualism were altered, and they developed distinctively American traits, such as wastefulness, inventiveness, mobility, and a dozen more.After opening with a summary of the appearance, acceptance, and subsequent dismissal of the theory, the author carefully defines the "frontier" and reviews recent evidence on its political, social, and economic characteristics. He discusses the compulsion to migrate and examines other behavioral patterns and traits in his explanation of how and why pioneers moved west. His extensive bibliographic notes constitute a remarkable guide to the literature of many disciplines dealing with the frontier concept.

America's Frontier Heritage

HOLT.

Contents: From boyhood to manhood, 1861-1884 -- The making of a historian : Wisconsin, 1884-1888 -- The making of a historian : John Hopkins, 1888-1889 -- Teaching : and the emerging frontier thesis, 1892-1893 -- The busy world of the professor, 1893-1901 -- Broadening historical horizons, 1893-1910 -- Popularizing the frontier thesis, 1893-1910 -- The genesis of the sectional concept, 1893-1910 -- Teacher and administrator, 1910-1910 -- Undergraduate teacher and reformer, 1901-1910 -- Leaving Wisconsin, 1905-1910 -- Harvard years : the academic world, 1910-1917 -- Harvard years : conflict, academic and international, 1915-1920 -- Harvard years : the world of scholarship, 1917-1924 -- The twilight years, 1924-1932 -- Frederick Jackson Turner : a portrait of the man -- The persistence of a theory : the frontier and sectional hypotheses -- The significance of Frederick Jackson Turner in American History.

Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Oxford Press

Westward to the Pacific: An Overview of America's Westward Expansion

Univ of Washington Pr

Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century

Billington, Ray Allen, Land Of Savagery, Land Of Promise: The European Image Of The Amer

Teen & Young Adult

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A discussion of the historical uses of the limerick accompanies irreverent, funny, and suggestive limericks which exemplify the limerick's classic form and reflect its role as a mirror of social change

Limericks, Historical and Hysterical

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

The limerick, one of the oldest and most challenging of verse forms, has traditionally been the plaything of Oxford dons, American academicians, and a sprinkling of men of wit. Historian Ray Allen Billington worked on his own collection for fifty years. Here is the cream of that collection--original and classical limericks, irreverent, spicy, funny, and, of course, suggestive.
The book is divided into several parts: the historical uses of the limerick, concentrating on the American frontier and on World War II; limericks assembled from the files of the Society of the Fifth Line, and organization of scholars whose job it is to produce an original verse for each meeting of the membership; samples of the classic limerick form, some original, some contributed, some culled from published and unpublished collections; and an assortment of limericks that reflect the limerick's role as a mirror of social change.
In the arrangement of the material, Billington could not resist "inflict[ing] my academic standards in an area where art should reign, using chapter headings, explanations, some variant readings, and such footnotes as needed to make the page unattractive."

Limericks: Historical and Hysterical

W.W.Norton&Company

Westward Movement in the United States

Krieger Pub. Co

Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy

Monaghan, Jay

University of California Press

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