New Western Historians
American academics
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American frontier
- In American frontier: Significance of the frontier
…American academics known as the New Western Historians. These historians—including Patricia Nelson Limerick, Richard White, William Cronon, and Donald Worster—viewed Turner’s concept of the frontier as ethnocentric in its failure to acknowledge that the landscape into which the settlers came had already been altered by centuries of habitation by Native…
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