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Author Jacobs, Wilbur R.

Title On Turner's trail : 100 years of writing western history / Wilbur R. Jacobs.

Publication Info. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [1994]
©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-330) and index.
Contents Turner's essay of 1893: the frontier as a molding force -- Turner's apprenticeship: the waspish trail -- The making of a historian: Yankee perspectives -- Developing a ruling theory -- Explaining colonial American history -- Explaining agricultural history -- The twentieth century: politics, urbanization, and world government -- Turner and the threats of the twentieth century -- Turner's shadow on world frontiers -- The "realwestern" history: its impact upon generations of students -- The emergence of Frederick Merk -- Reverse environmentalism and other teaching themes -- Merk takes the flag --The Billington era -- The challenge of Richard White to the Turnerian legacy -- Turnerian echoes in William Cronon's Nature's metropolis -- After a century: minefields along the Turnerian trail.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932 -- Influence.
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932.
Turner, Frederick Jackson -- Influencia.
West (U.S.) -- Historiography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Jacobs, Wilbur R. On Turner's trail. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©1994 (DLC) 93038244 (OCoLC)29223738
ISBN 9780700631025
070063102X
0700606165 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780700606160 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)