Información General

• Autores: Cornelis van Minnen (coord.)
• Editores: VU University Press
• Año de publicación: 2004
• País: España
• Idioma: español
• ISBN: 9053839429
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Resumen

• The essays collected in this volume explore the frontier theme in American history, not only as it relates to issues of political jurisdiction, territorial expansion, and cultural interaction, but also as a concept which is applicable to any different types of historically significant boundaries that have been used to differentiate and separate, that have been renegotiated, or that might be historiographically redefined. Physical geography, demographic movements, international relations, political culture, social customs, language, religion, and other cultural factors, as they intertwined over time, have all played roles in the historical processes of defining the nation, its values and the limits of its power. The same factors have also given rise to different social groups, interests and jurisdictions within the nation. These essays examine many kinds of frontiers and boundaries - territorial, economic, ethnic, literary, artistic, ideological, political, institutional, administrative, and even historiographical - discussing theoretical and interpretative problems in their demarcation, as well as their transgression, and their relationship with the exercise of power, from colonial times to the present.

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Listado de artículos

• • Frontiers and Boundaries in U.S. History: An Introduction

    Sylvia Lyn Hilton Stow, Cornelis van Minnen

    págs. 1-26

    

  • Reassessing American Frontier Theory: Culture, Cultural Relativism, and the Middle Ground in Early America

    Paul Otto

    págs. 27-38

    

  • Foregrounding the Boundaries of American Literary History

    Michael Boyden

    págs. 39-52

    

  • Republicanism, Federalism and Territorial Expansion in the United States

    Carmen de la Guardia Herrero

    págs. 53-68

    

  • Breaking into the Trans-Mississippian Frontiers: Thomas Jefferson's Expeditions to the West

    Marco Sioli

    págs. 69-88

    

  • Myths and Legends of the Irish Pioneers in Texas

    Graham Davis

    págs. 89-100

    

  • Yeomen and Yankees Across the Mason-Dixon Line: A Different Perspective on the Antebellum North/South Divide?

    Louis Billington, David Brown

    págs. 101-116

    

  • The Special Message of Rutherford B. Hayes, 8 March 1880, and the "American" Canal Policy

    Joseph Smith

    págs. 117-126

    

  • On the Frontier of Civilisation: Deliberations of Exceptionalism and Environmental Determinism in the Creation of America's Tropical Empire, 1890-1910

    Frank Schumacher

    págs. 127-142

    

  • Cajun Louisiana: A "French" Borderland in the Twentieth Century

    Robert Lewis

    págs. 143-154

    

  • New Deal, New Frontiers and Borderlands

    David K. Adams

    págs. 155-172

    

  • Frontiers and Boundaries in Hollywood Films: The Case of The Grapes of Wrath

    Melvyn Stokes

    págs. 173-184

    

  • Along the Ideological Frontier: The Limits of American Democracy, the Communist Party, and the Need for Historiographical Synthesis

    Ryan G. James

    págs. 185-196

    

  • Between Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Pragmatic Liberalism, Public Arts Funding, and the Cold War in the United States

    David Brian Howard

    págs. 197-206

    

  • Hawaii, Statehood, and the East-West Centre: Opening Up the Pacific Frontier

    Giles Scott-Smith

    págs. 207-218

    

  • The "New" American Frontier in Real and Fictional Las Vegas

    Ingrid Eumann

    págs. 219-246

    

  • Frontier and Identity: The Case of Alaska

    Titi de Vries

    págs. 229-246