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Republicanism and progressive historical interpretations of American democracy in the works of F.J. Turner, C.A. Beard and W.A. Williams.

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

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_322412
Date January 1998
ContributorsSuen, Bing., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of History.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, iv, 90 leaves ; 30 cm.
CoverageUnited States
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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