Republicanism and progressive historical interpretations of American democracy in the works of F.J. Turner, C.A. Beard and W.A. Williams
submitted by Suen Bing. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-90). ; Abstract also in Chinese. ; Abstract --- p.i ; Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter Chapter One: --- Republicanism and Progressive Historical Interpretations ; What is Republicanism? --- p.7 ; Republicanism as a Guiding Philosophy in Progressive Historical Scholarship --- p.16 ; Chapter Chapter Two: --- Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Democracy: A Republican Way of Thinking ; How Turner's thesis related frontier conditions with democracy? --- p.20 ; In what way is Turner's thesis affected by republicanism? --- p.24 ; A trace of republican idealism in Turner's later articles --- p.26 ; The safety valve hypothesis: A supplement to Turner's free land ´ؤ democracy relationship --- p.31 ; Free land - democracy vs. Education - democracy --- p.35 ; Chapter Chapter Three: --- Industrial Democracy and American Civilization: The Two Sides of Charles A. Beard's Republican Thinking ; The Industrial Society (1901) --- p.42 ; An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) --- p.46 ; "Contemporary American History, 1877-1913 (1914)" --- p.51 ; The Rise of American Civilization (1927) --- p.54 ; The American Spirit (1942) --- p.58 ; Chapter Chapter Four: --- William Appleman Williams' Inheritance of Progressive Historians' Republican Tradition ; American Russian Relations: 1871 ´ؤ1947 and The Tragedy of American Diplomacy --- p.64 ; The Contours of American History --- p.72 ; Great Evasion and Empire as a Way of Life --- p.77 ; Conclusion --- p.83 ; Bibliography --- p.87