Table of Contents

Frontiers and Boundaries in U.S. History: An Introduction; Reassessing American Frontier Theory: Culture, Cultural Relativism, and the Middle Ground in Early America; Foregrounding the Boundaries of American Literary History; Republicanism, Federalism and Territorial Expansion in the United States; Breaking into the Trans-Mississippian Frontiers: Thomas Jefferson's Expeditions to the West; Myths and Legends of the Irish Pioneers in Texas; Yeomen and Yankees Across the Mason-Dixon Line: A Different Perspective on the Antebellum North/South Divide?; The Special Message of Rutherford B. Hayes, 8 March 1880, and the "American" Canal Policy; On the Frontier of Civilisation: Deliberations of Exceptionalism and Environmental Determinism in the Creation of America's Tropical Empire, 1890-1910; Cajun Louisiana: A "French" Borderland in the Twentieth Century; New Deal, New Frontiers and Borderlands; Frontiers and Boundaries in Hollywood Films: The Case of The Grapes of Wrath; Along the Ideological Frontier: The Limits of American Democracy, the Communist Party, and the Need for Historiographical Synthesis; Between Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Pragmatic Liberalism, Public Arts Funding, and the Cold War in the United States; Hawaii, Statehood, and the East-West Centre: Opening Up the Pacific Frontier; The "New" American Frontier in Real and Fictional Las Vegas; Frontier and Identity: The Case of Alaska.

About the Author

Cornelis A van Minnen and Sylvia L Hilton, Editors