The Frontier : comparative studies / edited and with an introduction by David Harry Miller ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Miller, David Harry, 1938- | Savage, William W | Thompson, Stephen I | Oklahoma Symposium on Comparative Frontier Studies University of OklahomaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1977- Edition: 1st edDescription: v. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0806113766 (v. 1)Subject(s): Frontier and pioneer life -- America | Frontier and pioneer life -- Rome | Frontier thesisGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings | Conference papers and proceedings | Actes de congrès.LOC classification: GF53 | .F76E18.75 | .F76
Contents:
v. 1. Introduction / David Harry Miller and Jerome O. Steffen -- Theory and methodology in comparative frontier studies / John C. Hudson -- Frontier demography : an introduction / H.L. Lefferts -- Civitates and clients : Roman frontier policies in Pannonia and Mauretania Tingitana / John W. Eadie -- Preindustrial frontiers and interaction spheres : prolegomenon to a study of Roman frontier regions / William S. Cooter -- Ethnic stereotypes and the frontier : a comparative study of Roman and American experience / David Harry Miller and William W. Savage.
An archaeological perspective on social change- the Virginia frontier / Kenneth E. Lewis -- The fur trade of the west, 1807-1840 : a geographic synthesis / David J. Wishart -- Frontier settlement in eastern Ontario in the nineteenth century : a study in changing perceptions of land and opportunity / Brian S. Osborne.
Nineteenth-century land use and settlement on the Canadian shield frontier / Geoffrey Wall -- Ethnic differences on the southwestern United States frontier / David T. Bailey and Bruce E. Haulman -- Social change on the Latin American frontier / Emilio Willems -- Social relations of production on the Brazilian frontier / Martin T. Katzman -- The cultural ecology of pioneer agriculture in contemporary South America / Stephen I. Thompson.
Summary: Man's evolution has been importantly shaped by the frontiers he has encountered as he moved across the world. The frontiers shaped him, but also he defined those frontiers and, for good or ill, thereby transformed the natural world and his own place in it. These volumes examine the way Frederick Jackson Turner's theory of the frontier is applied to its cultural, economic, political, and social development.
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Vol. [1] published unnumbered.

Vol. 2 edited by W. W. Savage and S. I. Thompson.

Includes papers presented at the annual Oklahoma Symposium on Comparative Frontier Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Introduction / David Harry Miller and Jerome O. Steffen -- Theory and methodology in comparative frontier studies / John C. Hudson -- Frontier demography : an introduction / H.L. Lefferts -- Civitates and clients : Roman frontier policies in Pannonia and Mauretania Tingitana / John W. Eadie -- Preindustrial frontiers and interaction spheres : prolegomenon to a study of Roman frontier regions / William S. Cooter -- Ethnic stereotypes and the frontier : a comparative study of Roman and American experience / David Harry Miller and William W. Savage.

An archaeological perspective on social change- the Virginia frontier / Kenneth E. Lewis -- The fur trade of the west, 1807-1840 : a geographic synthesis / David J. Wishart -- Frontier settlement in eastern Ontario in the nineteenth century : a study in changing perceptions of land and opportunity / Brian S. Osborne.

Nineteenth-century land use and settlement on the Canadian shield frontier / Geoffrey Wall -- Ethnic differences on the southwestern United States frontier / David T. Bailey and Bruce E. Haulman -- Social change on the Latin American frontier / Emilio Willems -- Social relations of production on the Brazilian frontier / Martin T. Katzman -- The cultural ecology of pioneer agriculture in contemporary South America / Stephen I. Thompson.

Man's evolution has been importantly shaped by the frontiers he has encountered as he moved across the world. The frontiers shaped him, but also he defined those frontiers and, for good or ill, thereby transformed the natural world and his own place in it. These volumes examine the way Frederick Jackson Turner's theory of the frontier is applied to its cultural, economic, political, and social development.