<div><div><p>βThe best assembly of Turnerβs essays now available. Faragherβs introductory and concluding commentaries add considerably to the import of the book.ββStephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles</p><p> </p><p>βStill ranks as the most influential piece of writing on American histo
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<span>Contents: From boyhood to manhood, 1861-1884 -- The making of a historian : Wisconsin, 1884-1888 -- The making of a historian : John Hopkins, 1888-1889 -- Teaching : and the emerging frontier thesis, 1892-1893 -- The busy world of the professor, 1893-1901 -- Broadening historical horizons, 189
<p>This book contains four essays by and about Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), the Wisconsin-born historian whose ideas and writings have had such a profound impact upon the way Americans view their past, and their place in the world. It is a book not only for the scholar and teacher (who will
Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon. </p> <p>That is a testament to Turner's powers of creative synthesis; in a few short pages, he succeeded in redefining the way in which whole generati
Widely recognized as one of today's most important cultural critics, Fredric Jameson's writing targets subjects from architecture to science fiction, cinema and global capitalism. Of his work, The Political Unconscious remains one of the most widely cited Marxist literary-theoretical texts, and "Pos