01:790:376 Lecture 13: Lecture 13
26 Apr 2018
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The significance of the frontier in american history (1893) Intro: moving from considerations of economic and political equality/inequality (woodhull, Sumner, carnegie, debs, veblen) to broader cultural and political questions: relationship between political narrowly defined (government, elections, parties, legislation) and broader contexts in which it takes place (recall whitman on literature, American part of our history (4: read american history from west to east (11, indian and hunter, trader, rancher, farmer, towns, city and factory. How did frontier shape american development: fostered intercolonial cooperation (albany congress 1754 and others, fostered dynamic mobility and turnover, the next class of emigrants purchase the lands another wave rolls on. Implicated in growing conflict over slavery (e. g. , louisiana purchase, expansion into new territories) (turner emphasizes western dimension more than slave dimension) What comes next: since the days when the fleet of columbus sailed into the waters of the new world, Story of american frontier may mean one thing for.
