The Eloquence of Frederick Jackson Turner

Stephen E. Lucas; Ronald H. Carpenter

doi:10.2307/1901797

O Oeste historiográfico norte-americano: a Frontier Thesis vs. a New Western History

Anos 90 ◽

10.22456/1983-201x.6379 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 12 (21) ◽

pp. 369-413

Author(s):

Arthur Lima de Avila

Keyword(s):

Western History ◽

Frederick Jackson Turner

Este artigo busca comparar dois projetos historiográficos antagônicos, a frontier thesis, de Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), e a NewWestern History, movimento de fins da década de 80 do século XX, atentando para os diferentes “Oestes” historiográficos que construíram.

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The American Frontier as State of Nature

World Affairs ◽

10.1177/0043820018776408 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 181 (1) ◽

pp. 22-41

Author(s):

Michael J. Faber

Keyword(s):

Political Development ◽

John Locke ◽

American Political Development ◽

American Frontier ◽

Frederick Jackson Turner ◽

Early American ◽

State Of Nature ◽

Law And Justice ◽

American Society ◽

In The Beginning

John Locke claims that “in the beginning, all the world was America.” If this were, in fact, the case, then the early American frontier ought to resemble the state of nature that Locke describes. Louis Hartz finds in early American settlement a sort of instinctive Lockeanism, while Frederick Jackson Turner sees in the frontier the primary determining factor in American development. Combining the two suggests that American society may well have developed along Lockean lines, but only if the frontier was in fact at least an approximation of Locke’s state of nature. The frontier does resemble such a state in certain respects, though Locke’s concepts of natural law and justice are conspicuously absent, or at least very weak. This helps to explain why the Americanized version of Locke described by Hartz, rather than a more accurate and complete reading, became the dominant ideological force in early American political development.

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Military Service and Material Gain on the Ottoman–Hapsburg Frontier

The Frontiers of the Ottoman World ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197264423.003.0023 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

MARK STEIN

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

North America ◽

Military Service ◽

Economic Opportunity ◽

Historical Scholarship ◽

Economic Opportunities ◽

Frederick Jackson Turner ◽

Material Gain ◽

Economic Advancement

Just over a century ago, Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous Frontier Thesis, which continues to be one of the most debated and controversial theories in historical scholarship and has affected all discussions of frontier history worldwide. This chapter explores one aspect of Turner's work that may be applicable to other frontiers — that of the frontier as a zone of economic opportunity. It discusses how military service on the seventeenth-century Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier presented a number of chances for economic advancement to men who were willing to take the risks of living and working along the border. Moving to the frontier offered economic opportunities not found in the interior. In North America, a large part of the opportunity was the potential to acquire land. It is possible that in some cases there was similar opportunity along the seventeenth-century Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier.

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