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Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Webb contends that the closing of the global frontier at the end of the nineteenth century, with the end of easily available empty land and readily exploited natural resources, was responsible for the crises and violence of the twentieth century and boded ill for the future of the United Statess treasured democracy.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Nevada Press
ISBN-100874175194
ISBN-139780874175196
eBay Product ID (ePID)2413137
Product Key Features
Book TitleGreat Frontier
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicCivilization, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Social History
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorWalter Prescott Webb
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight22.2 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-151288
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal914
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisFirst published in 1951, The Great Frontier has become one of the undisputed classics of Western history, its conclusions still hotly debated by scholars but nonetheless essential and engrossing reading for anyone who wishes to understand the history and significance of this vast and often puzzling region. The final work of pioneer Western historian Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Frontier represents a daring attempt to interpret the settlement of the American West in the global context of the expansion of European civilization between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. According to Webb's boom hypothesis, the expansion of Europe's Great Frontier into the Western Hemisphere energized a static society and made possible the development of such fundamental institutions of the modern era as individualism capitalism, and political democracy. Webb contends that the closing of the global frontier at the end of the nineteenth century, with the end of easily available empty land and readily exploited natural resources, was responsible for the crises and violence of the twentieth century and boded ill for the future of the United States's treasured democracy. An insightful new introd
LC Classification NumberCB245.W4 2003
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