area. There is also a fallen woman‚ Dallas‚ who is rejected by the rest of the company until she proves to be a useful and modest female and helps lady Mallory give birth. For her‚ riding the stagecoach is another‚ if not the only‚ chance to begin a new life. There is also a runaway banker‚ who has stolen a bank deposit. Another traveller is doctor Doc Bune‚ a notorious drunk‚ but well-natured and fine doctor. They are a cross-section of all American settlers: from well-educated‚ people from higher
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Frontier Cities‚ Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire‚ In the book Frontier Cities‚ Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire‚ the authors debate the myriad ways in which cities‚ in the United States‚ and worldwide‚ functioned as crossroads of Empires. This book utilizes other sources‚ such as Richard C. Wade’s The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities‚ 1790–1830 (Urbana‚ 1959)‚ to posit that cities were central to the formation of frontiers. The book also theorizes that frontier cities
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The Western Frontier and the Changes that took Place The frontier was land that had been untouched in the Western United States by white mans laws and way of life. As time passed‚ and the population grew on the frontier‚ and changes took place. Basic ways of life changed. Religious beliefs‚ laws‚ and regulations were challenged and adapted to the new settings. Each of these novels‚ The Pioneer‚ A New Way Home-Who’ll Follow‚ & Hope Leslie‚ take a different look at these changes that were taking
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In Hurtado’s Intimate Frontiers‚ the author argues that‚ by the late 1800s‚ an Anglo-American presence in California had dominated the region‚ and Anglos in that territory had risen to the top of the social hierarchy. There were many draws to California for the migrating Anglos‚ and numerous reasons for braving the often dangerous journey‚ just as the means of establishing an “Anglo hegemony” were numerous as well. Hurtado analyzes the period through the lens of gender-relations and sex‚ and through
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BORDERLAND - This term was used in our first class and it is the first word I wrote in my notebook. This key concept was particularly interesting and though-provoking. It helped me develop ideas about Eastern Europe from the start of Unit 1. It made me think about borderlands all over the world‚ not just in Eastern Europe. I started to wonder what exactly defines where a country ends‚ does it really end at the borderland? Julia Sushytska explains in her article “what is Eastern Europe – a philosophical
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AMH 2042 Chapter 24 Study Guide Foreign Policy Under Wilson “It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs” -Woodrow Wilson Part One: Chapter Questions 1. What were the circumstances of the sinking of the Luisitania? How did the US react? 2. What was the nature of American foreign policy from 1901 to 1920? What changes came about? |President/Policy |Major Events
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final determination regarding my five main books. Part I – The Original Thesis Turner‚ Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. New York: Henry Holt and Company‚ 1920. This book includes Turner’s landmark
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Side of The “Frontier Thesis” England‚ a small and familiar place for many‚ was a community with very strict rules and beliefs. The Church of England was the dominant power over the country‚ and not everyone was happy with this dictatorship. Once the land in America was founded‚ Puritans and other men searching for freedom gathered and sailed across the sea to the new land. America became a “melting pot” full of various traditions‚ cultures‚ and beliefs from England as well as new “American” ideas
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Frederick Jackson Turner’s famous frontier thesis argued that through the Westward expansion came the formation of the first “American” people. Turner’s essay‚ presented around 1893‚ strongly correlates with the upheaval 1890’s. The shaping of the new American nation through the westward settlement can be later linked to economic troubles‚ labor struggles‚ and a rise in democracy and big business. “At first‚ the frontier was the Atlantic coast. It was the frontier of Europe in a very real sense
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“Jackson’s Frontier-and Turner’s” Historians are seen as individuals telling the common folks of the world‚ in this case the common folk of the United States‚ the events of the past. Historians do not just regurgitate facts‚ they create a narrative; mostly made up of facts‚ but also from their perspective. What individuals do not realize is historians do not miraculously know the information; they must research the information from evidence‚ from a certain period‚ making historians a type of
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