submitted by Suen Bing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-90). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter One: --- Republicanism and Progressive Historical Interpretations / What is Republicanism? --- p.7 / Republicanism as a Guiding Philosophy in Progressive Historical Scholarship --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Democracy: A Republican Way of Thinking / How Turner's thesis related frontier conditions with democracy? --- p.20 / In what way is Turner's thesis affected by republicanism? --- p.24 / A trace of republican idealism in Turner's later articles --- p.26 / The safety valve hypothesis: A supplement to Turner's free land ´ؤ democracy relationship --- p.31 / Free land - democracy vs. Education - democracy --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Industrial Democracy and American Civilization: The Two Sides of Charles A. Beard's Republican Thinking / The Industrial Society (1901) --- p.42 / An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) --- p.46 / "Contemporary American History, 1877-1913 (1914)" --- p.51 / The Rise of American Civilization (1927) --- p.54 / The American Spirit (1942) --- p.58 / Chapter Chapter Four: --- William Appleman Williams' Inheritance of Progressive Historians' Republican Tradition / American Russian Relations: 1871 ´ؤ1947 and The Tragedy of American Diplomacy --- p.64 / The Contours of American History --- p.72 / Great Evasion and Empire as a Way of Life --- p.77 / Conclusion --- p.83 / Bibliography --- p.87