The Turner thesis concerning the role of the frontier in American history.
Edited and with an introd. by George Rogers Taylor.
- Boston D. C. Heath and Co. [1956]
- vii, 109 p.
- Problems in American civilization .
The significance of the frontier in American history, by F. J. Turner.--Contributions of the West to American democracy, by F. J. Turner.--Sections or classes? By L. M. Hacker.--Political institutions and the frontier, by B. F. Wright, Jr.--The frontier and American institutions; a criticism of the Turner theory, by G. W. Pierson.--The American frontier, frontier of what? By C. J. H. Hayes.--Frederick Jackson Turner, by A. Craven.--The frontier and the 400 year boom, by W. P. Webb.--A meaning for Turner's frontier, democracy in the Old Northwest, by S. Elkins and E. McKitrick.--Frontier democracy; social aspects, by R. A. Billington.--Suggestions for additional reading (p. 185-188)
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Turner, Frederick Jackson 1861-1932. Frontier in American history.