Audiobooks by Frederick Jackson Turner

The American Nation: A History, Vol. 14: Rise of the New West, 1819–1829

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms Rise of the New West 1819–1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner, PhD Professor of American History at the University of Wisconsin. Narrated by Joseph Tabler. Volume 14 of 27 in The American Nation: A History From Original Sources by Associated Scholars published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University. In the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there, is a rapid increase of published sources and serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in an untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader. From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Fourteen: To describe such a movement and its effects. Professor Turner has the advantage to be a descendant of New Yorkers, of New England stock, but native to the west, and living alongside the most complete collection of materials upon the west which has ever been brought together—the Library of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The aim of the volume is not to show the Rise of the New West as though it were a separate story, but to show how the nation found itself in the midst of questions involving the west, and how all parts of the Union were enriched and stimulated by the appearance of a new section. It opens up new vistas of historical study. From the Author’s Preface: In the present volume I have kept before myself the importance of regarding American development as the outcome of economic and social as well as political forces. To make plain the attitude and influence of New England, the middle region, the south, and the west, and of the public men who reflected the changing conditions of those sections in the period under consideration, has been my principal purpose. The limits of the volume have prevented the elaboration of some points well worthy of fuller treatment; and, by the plan of the series, certain aspects of the period have been reserved for other writers. Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. Nationalism and Sectionalism (1815–1830)II. New England (1820–1830)III. The Middle Region (1820–1830)IV. The South (1820–1830)V. Colonization of the West (1820–1830)VI. Social and Economic Development of theWest (1820–1830)VII. Western Commerce and Ideals (1820–1830)VIII. The Far West (1820–1830)IX. The Crisis of 1819 and Its Results (1819–1820)X. The Missouri Compromise (1819–1821)XI. Party Politics (1820–1822)XII. The Monroe Doctrine (1821–1823)XIII. Internal Improvements (1818–1824)XIV. The Tariff of 1824 (1820–1824)XV. The Election of 1824 (1822–1825)XVI. President Adams and the Opposition (1825–1827)XVII. Internal Improvements and Foreign Trade (1825–1829)XVIII. Reaction Towards State Sovereignty (1816–1829)XIX. The Tariff of Abominations and the South Carolina Exposition (1827–1828) Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available for the first time in this format for your pleasure and consideration.

Frederick Jackson Turner (Author), Joseph Tabler (Narrator)

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The Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner was the dean of American historians in his time. He originated, and he and his students popularized, the Frontier Hypothesis of American history: that the primary driving force in the development of American society and politics was the encounter with the frontier, conceived of as a vast area of essentially free land, a seemingly limitless resource available to all comers. This book, The Frontier in American History, is a collection of essays Turner wrote between the 1890's and 1918--itself a highly dynamic time in American history, a point which he addresses from the perspective of his ideas about the frontier in numerous ways. As all books must do, Turner's writing shows the influence of his time. He pays virtually no attention to the oppression inflicted upon Native Americans, and despite giving considerable time to the interaction of the development of the frontier with the issue of slavery, he gives very little space to the consideration of slavery itself. This should be no cause for surprise; he is, if anything, somewhat better on these issues than many intellectuals of his time. The value of his book--and it is a very valuable work--lies in his ability to synthesize the great migratory movement of Europeans and Americans westward across the North American continent into a coherent view of the nature of that movement, the ways in which the peoples involved changed in response to it, and the effects it had on the long-term development of the United States. The processes he describes have not ended. We are still dealing with the effects of our long engagement with the frontier in many ways. Enjoy! A Freshwater Seas production.

Frederick Jackson Turner (Author), Robert Bethune (Narrator)

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