 | Patricia Limerick - History - 1987 - 404 pages
...conquered "savagery" at any one location, the process — and the historian's attention — moved on. In rethinking Western history, we gain the freedom...considered their homelands to be the center, not the edge. In choosing to stress place more than process, we cannot fix exact boundaries for the region,... | |
 | James L. Conyers - History - 2002 - 404 pages
...to Patricia Nelson Limerick, "Turner's frontier was a process, not a place." She goes on to say that "in rethinking Western history, we gain the freedom...considered their homelands to be the center, not the edge."22 Quintard Taylor asked if the West was "a racial frontier beyond which lay the potential for... | |
 | Brett L. Walker - History - 2001 - 348 pages
...Legacy of Conquest, Limerick submits that by rejecting the frontier process as a model of analysis, "we gain the freedom to think of the West as a place...considered their homelands to be the center, not the edge." She argues elsewhere that the frontier model is both "nationalist and racist" and that when... | |
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In rethinking Western history, we gain the freedom to think of the West as a place — as many complicated environments occupied by natives who considered their homelands to be the center, not the edge. 