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Frederick Turner (born 1943) is an English–American poet affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism. He is the author of three full-length science fiction epic poems, The New World, Genesis and Apocalypse; several books of his poetry and literary translations; and a number of other works. He has been called "a major poet of ...
Frederick W. Turner (sometimes Frederick Turner), born in Chicago in 1937, [1] is an American writer of history, including an acclaimed biography of the naturalist John Muir, and historical novels. He has published a revised and annotated edition of Geronimo 's 1906 autobiography.
Fred Turner (musician) (born 1943), Canadian founding member of Bachman–Turner Overdrive; W. Fred Turner (1922–2003), American attorney; F. A. Turner (1858–1923), American actor, sometimes credited as Fred Turner; Frederick C. Turner Jr., American soldier and educator, first Black student and faculty member at Arkansas State University
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Theorist Frederick Jackson Turner went deeper, arguing that the frontier was the scene of a defining process of American civilization: "The frontier," he asserted, "promoted the formation of a composite nationality for the American people." He theorized it was a process of development: "This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life ...
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The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner's Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.