Turner and the sociology of the frontier. Edited by Richard Hofstadter and Seymour Martin Lipset.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Sociology of American historyPublication details: New York, Basic Books [1968]Description: vi, 232 p. illus. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.29/73
LOC classification:
  • E179.5 .H62
Contents:
Introduction / Richard Hofstadter -- The Turner thesis in comparative perspective: an introduction / Seymour Martin Lipset -- The frontier and American institutions: a criticism of the Turner theory / George Wilson Pierson -- The myth of frontier individualism / Mody C. Boatright -- The Turner thesis re-examined / Everett S. Lee -- Social theory and the pioneer / Allan G. Bogue -- Frontier estate builders and farm laborers / Paul W. Gates -- A meaning for Turner's frontier: democracy in the old Northwest / Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick -- Comparative studies in frontier history / Marvin W. Mikesell -- A post-mortem on the labor-safety-valve theory / Fred A. Shannon -- The safety-valve doctrine re-evaluated / Norman J. Simler -- Sequential growth, the labor-safety-valve doctrine, and the development of American unionism / George G.S. Murphy, Arnold Zellner.
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Introduction / Richard Hofstadter -- The Turner thesis in comparative perspective: an introduction / Seymour Martin Lipset -- The frontier and American institutions: a criticism of the Turner theory / George Wilson Pierson -- The myth of frontier individualism / Mody C. Boatright -- The Turner thesis re-examined / Everett S. Lee -- Social theory and the pioneer / Allan G. Bogue -- Frontier estate builders and farm laborers / Paul W. Gates -- A meaning for Turner's frontier: democracy in the old Northwest / Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick -- Comparative studies in frontier history / Marvin W. Mikesell -- A post-mortem on the labor-safety-valve theory / Fred A. Shannon -- The safety-valve doctrine re-evaluated / Norman J. Simler -- Sequential growth, the labor-safety-valve doctrine, and the development of American unionism / George G.S. Murphy, Arnold Zellner.