Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

PART I · THE BACKGROUND

1 · Historical Writing Before Turner

PART II · FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER

2 · Turner and the Western Revolt

3 · Frontier and Section and the Usable Past

4 · The Frontier as an Explanation

PART III · CHARLES A. BEARD

5 · Beard and the Progressive Mind

6 · The Constitution as an Economic Document

7 · The Constitution and Political Thought

8 · Reconsiderations

9 · The Devil Theory of Franklin D. Roosevelt

PART IV · V. L. PARRINGTON

10 · Economics and Criticism

11 · Criticism and Political Thought

PART V · THE AFTERMATH

12 · Conflict and Consensus in American History

Bibliographical Essay