Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Ray Allen Billington
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America's Frontier Heritage
The hypothesis advanced in Frederick Jackson Turner's famous 1893 essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, has been debated by three generations of scholars. …
Westward Expansion
When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's 'Westward Expansion' set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation …
People of the Plains and Mountains
Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them …
The Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding
This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history …
The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten
Charlotte L. Forten (1838-1914) was sensitive, intelligent, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other young …
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise
America's Frontier Culture
Here, Ray A. Billington outlines the three century-long process of westering that forged the American characteristics of resourcefulness, individualism and democracy, and upward …
The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Young Black Woman's Reaction to the White World of the Civil War Era
American History Before 1877
American History Before 1877
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the …