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A Criticism of the Turner Theory
A careful study of Turner’s thirteen essays made it plain to Pierson that “in theory he recognized, as all of us must do, the European origins of New World society” [P 48]. Turner was willing to make two further concessions to Old Word influence. ... Turner thus insisted a foreign accretion to frontier society, a sort of melting pot. After these and other concessions Turner came up to the conclusion that the novelties in American civilization finally became so successful and power as to “react on the seaboard and on Europe itself”[P 49].
However, Turner in his essays never formulated his interpretation very briefly, rather he was inclined to exploit a while congeries of explanations, “shifting the burden of proof as circumstances seemed to warrant” [P 49].
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