 | Patricia Limerick - 1987 - 404 ページ
...location, the process — and the historian's attention — moved on. In rethinking Western history, we gain the freedom to think of the West as a place...considered their homelands to be the center, not the edge. In choosing to stress place more than process, we cannot fix exact boundaries for the region, any more... | |
 | James L. Conyers - 2002 - 404 ページ
..."Turner's frontier was a process, not a place." She goes on to say that "in rethinking Western history, we gain the freedom to think of the West as a place...considered their homelands to be the center, not the edge."22 Quintard Taylor asked if the West was "a racial frontier beyond which lay the potential for... | |
 | James Reardon-Anderson - 2005 - 326 ページ
...explains Patricia Limerick, a leader of the new Western historians. "In rethinking Western history, we gain the freedom to think of the West as a place...considered their homelands to be the center, not the edge."6 Unlike pioneers on the frontier, whose role is to transform the wilderness and add the digested... | |
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In rethinking Western history, we gain the freedom to think of the West as a place — as many complicated environments occupied by natives who considered their homelands to be the center, not the edge. 