“About the completest single volume history of Europe covering the years between the two most epochal events in her experience. Excellent historical work.”
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“It is naïve, sincere, and, if the English is sometimes colloquial, one has no difficulty in understanding what the author means. It is a book intended to be read by the person of average cultivation, and not very much instruction—and judged from that point of view the author’s task is very well done.” M. F. Egan
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“In style and method the latter half of the book is somewhat like those editorial summaries of current events contained in some of the best modern journals. It is concise, considered, rather neutral, but useful for exactly the purpose for which it was designed. The book’s value lies not so much in the backward glimpses of the past from the present point of view as in the light thrown forward on the war and upon our present state by the course of events since 1879.”
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TURNER, FREDERICK JACKSON. Frontier in American history. *$2.50 Holt 973
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Professor Turner’s essay on “The significance of the frontier in American history” was read at a meeting of the American historical association in Chicago in 1893 and has had a profound influence on American historical thinking and writing. It is to be found in the Proceedings of the State historical society of Wisconsin for 1893, and in the Report of the American historical association for the same year and is reprinted here together with other papers bearing on the same theme. A statement of his thesis may be taken from “The West and American ideals”: “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.” The other papers are: The first official frontier of the Massachusetts bay; The old West; The middle West; The Ohio valley in American history; The significance of the Mississippi valley in American history; The problem of the West; Dominant forces in western life; Contributions of the West to American democracy; Pioneer ideals and the state university; Social forces in American history; Middle western pioneer democracy.