The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Paperback

by Frederick J. Turner (Author)

-The Significance of the Frontier in American History- "In the settlement of America we have to observe how European life entered the continent, and how America modified and developed that life and reacted on Europe. Our early history is the study of European germs developing in an American environment. Too exclusive attention has been paid by institutional students to the Germanic origins, too little to the American factors. The frontier is the line of most rapid and effective Americanization..."