2 options
The great frontier : freedom and hierarchy in modern times / William H. McNeill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-2016, author.
- Series:
- Charles Edmondson historical lectures ; 4th.
- Charles Edmondson historical lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social history.
- Equality.
- Frontier and pioneer life--United States.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Emigration and immigration--History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social classes.
- Labor supply.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1983]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A leading American historian examines the character of the frontiers of European expansion throughout the modern age, questioning a notion of frontier freedom popular since Turner. William McNeill argues that social hierarchy characterized the frontier more often than pioneer equality. As Europeans traveled to various lands, bringing new diseases to vulnerable natives, formerly isolated populations died in great numbers, creating an "open" frontier where labor was scarce. European efforts to develop frontier areas involved either a radical leveling of the hierarchies common in Europe itself or, alternatively, their sharp reinforcement by resort to slavery, serfdom, peonage, and indentured labor. Juxtaposing national and transnational experiences and illuminating the complex interchange of peoples (and illnesses) in the modern era, Professor McNeill brings the history of the United States into perspective as an example of a process that encircled the globe. His book clarifies both the experience of the global frontier and the processes that now mark the end of hundreds of year of expansion of the European center. William H. McNeill is Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His numerous books include The Rise of the West (Chicago); Plagues and Peoples (Doubleday); and The Human Condition (Princeton).Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Acknowledgments
- LECTURE I: TO 1750
- LECTURE II: FROM 1750
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4008-4361-8
- 0-691-65566-9
- 0-691-19813-6
- OCLC:
- 1086482862
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.