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How frontier experience had an impact on women's role

How frontier experience had an impact on women's role

Cebulla, Bjoern

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ISBN10: 3640781112
ISBN13: 9783640781119
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Dec 19 2010
Pages: 20
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.04 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, course: Women in the West, language: English, abstract: (...) American historians assumed that the process of extending the frontier westward began 1607 with the establishment of the first colony in Jamestown. It ended around 1890 when the U.S. census bureau defined the frontier [...] as an unbroken line of settlement with two or fewer people per square mile [...]. This criterion led Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 to the conclusion that there was no frontier line, due to westward movement and expanding settlement, anymore. Turner noted the great significance of the frontier to the development of the American society and underlined the frontier's economic and political contributions. In addition he argued that the spirit of the West was very important, because it [...] encouraged men to rebel against eastern conservatism, particularly by shaping new policies [...] and to liberalize their political views in support of democracy. When he talked about frontier experience he talked about the story of men's confrontation with the raw force of the West. The wilderness masters the colonist. [...] It takes him from the railroad car and puts him in the birch canoe. [...] at the frontier the environment is at first too strong for the man. He must accept the conditions which it furnishes, or perish, and so he fits himself into the Indian clearings and follows the Indian trails. (...) When analyzing history it is important to have a look at the people. From this point of view frontiers were not just regions at the edge of a settled area, but also places were different people - men, women and children - had to manage their lives. Therefore the topic of this term paper is to investigate how frontier encounters and experiences had an impact on women's role. For this reason the term paper is structured as fol

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