Introduction / Richard Hofstadter -- The Turner thesis in comparative perspective: an introduction / Seymour Martin Lipset -- The frontier and American institutions: a criticism of the Turner theory / George Wilson Pierson -- The myth of frontier individualism / Mody C. Boatright -- The Turner thesis re-examined / Everett S. Lee -- Social theory and the pioneer / Allan G. Bogue -- Frontier estate builders and farm laborers / Paul W. Gates -- A meaning for Turner's frontier: democracy in the old Northwest / Stanley Elkins / Eric McKitrick -- Comparative studies in frontier history / Marvin W. Mikesell -- A post-mortem on the labor-safety-valve theory / Fred A. Shannon -- The safety-valve doctrine re-evaluated / Norman J. Simler -- Sequential growth, the labor-safety-valve doctrine, and the development of American unionism / George G.S. Murphy / Arnold Zellner
Analysis
Frontier and pioneer life United States Historiography
Frontier thesis
Turner, Frederick Jackson 1861-1932
United States Territorial expansion Historiography
