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Historians against history; the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 David W. Noble.

Noble, David W. (Author).

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  • Physical Description: 197 pages. ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 181-187)
Formatted Contents Note:
Flight from feudalism: the new world and the Puritan covenant -- George Bancroft: Nature and the fulfillment of the covenant -- Frederick Jackson Turner: The machine and the loss of the covenant -- Charles A. Beard: Industrialism and the covenant restored -- Carl Becker: Europe and the roots of the covenant -- Vernon Louis Parrington: The covenant and the Jeffersonian Jeremiad -- Beard: The covenant threatened by institutional power -- Becker: The covenant replaced by civilization -- Daniel Boorstin: Blackstone and the conservation of the American covenant -- The end of the covenant and the beginning of American history.
Subject: Frontier thesis.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States > Historiography.
United States > Territorial expansion > Historiography.

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