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United States 835 what they think and do, then one must make the the westward movement, is much neglected. On same concession to the English and other settler/ the other hand there is much about sections and invaders. The same principle applies to modern sectionalism, about slavery as it influenced the understanding of the experience involved. At one sectional question, and about the relationship be- level, such an intellectual and moral position is tween diplomacy and territorial acquisitions. Also, unassailable; at another, it is a total shambles. there is westward movement in the sense that the One almost wonders whether Lewis Carroll's Red sections and the various Wests are considered in and White Queens came from a chessboard in an east-to-west sequence, yet there is almost no North America. usage of the word "frontier" and very little refer- The whole subject is far too complex for treat- ence to the theories of the "father" of frontier ment in two hundred pages. (It took Roy Harvey history—Frederick Jackson Turner—from whom Pearce nearly as many words to discuss the liter- Frederick Merk inherited his famous Harvard ary evidence about images of Indians prior to the course known to generations of students
The American Historical Review – Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 1, 1979
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