Originally published: Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 1994. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Latin-American frontiers / Arthur S. Aiton -- Frontier barbarism / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -- The frontier in Hispanic America / Victor Andrés Belaúnde -- The frontiers of Hispanic America / Silvio Zavala -- The great frontier / Walter Prescott Webb -- The great frontier : freedom and hierarchy / William H. McNeill -- New world frontiers : comparisons and agendas / Walter Nugent -- Reflections on the Ibero-American frontier mission as an institution in Native American history / David G. Sweet -- The encomienda in Paraguay / Elman R. Service -- Frontier warfare in colonial Chile / Louis de Armond -- "Black transfrontiersmen" : the Caribbean maroons / Franklin W. Knight -- Family, frontiers, and a Brazilian community / Alida C. Metcalf -- National identity and the frontier / Hebe Clementi -- The gaucho in Argentina's quest for national identity / Richard W. Slatta -- Bandeirantes and pioneers / Clodomir Vianna Moog -- "Two-step' migration and upward mobility on the frontier : the safety valve effect in Pejibaye, Costa Rica / James Sewastynowicz -- Violence on the frontier / Joe Foweraker -- Frontier expansion and Indian peoples in the Brazilian Amazon / Alcida R. Ramos -- Social change on the Latin American frontier / Emilio Willems.
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