Contributor
Wyman, Walker D. (Walker Demarquis), 1907-1999.
Imprint:Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1957.
Descriptionxx, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I. THE WORLD FRONTIER: Roman colonization and the frontier hypothesis / Paul L. MacKendrick -- The Mediterranean frontiers, 1000-1400 / Robert L. Reynolds -- The frontiers of Hispanic America / Silvio Zavala -- If TUrner had looked at Canada, Australia, and New Zealand when he wrote about the West / A.L. Burt -- Russian expansion in the Far East in the light of the Turner hypothesis / A. Lobanov-Rostovsky -- Chinese mandarins and western traders: the effect of the frontier in Chinese history / Eugene P. Boardman -- The western world frontier / Walter Prescott Webb -- Part II. THE AMERICAN FRONTEIR: The southern frontier, an interpretation / Thomas Perkins Abernethy -- Frontier estate builders and farm laborers / Paul W. Gates -- Classics on the midwest frontier / Walter A. Agard -- Language on the American frontier / Frederic G. Cassidy -- Mark Twain as an interpreter of the far west: the structure of Roughing It / Henry Nash Smith -- The backwash of the frontier: the impact of the Indian on American culture / A. Irving Hallowell.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies.
Note:Lyman Copeland Draper was the corresponding secretary for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1854 nearly until his death in 1891 and while there continued his life-long habit of collecting pioneer reminiscences and frontier lore which eventually formed the Draper Collection of primary resources. "In 1954 the University of Wisconsin Summer Session sponsored a series of lectures in honor of Draper's memory, under the title "Wisonsin Reconsiders the Frontier." The department of history and other departments invited a number of lecturers from within the University and elsewhere, and from this series of lectures thirteen have been chosen for inclusion in this volume."- Pref.
