Bound away
Frontier thesisFrontier and pioneer lifeTerritorial expansionHistoryPopulation
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"Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis celebrating the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as a creative process of high importance in American history, but they understand it in a different way." "Whereas Turner studied the westward movement in terms of its destination, Fischer and Kelly approach it in terms of its origins. Virginia's long history enables them to provide a rich portrait of migration and expansion as a dynamic process that preserved strong cultural continuities.". "The wealth of anecdotes and illustrations in this volume offers a new way of looking at John Smith and William Byrd, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Dred Scott, and scores of lesser-known gentry, yeomen, servants, and slaves who were all "bound away" to an old new world."--BOOK JACKET.
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Frontier thesisFrontier and pioneer lifeTerritorial expansionHistoryPopulationInternal Migration
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United StatesVirginia1775-1865Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
About the author
David Hackett Fischer
2 December 1935
David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have tackled everything from large macroeconomic and cultural trends (*Albion's Seed, The Great Wave*) to narrative histories of significant events (*Paul Revere's Ride, Washington's Crossing*) to explorations of historiography (*Historians' Fallacies*, in which he coined the term Historian's fallacy). - Wikipedia
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