Frontierism

Noun

Word Frequency: 4.4

Definitions

1.NounSupport for a frontier; especially, the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that a settler colonial exceptionalism, under the guise of American democracy, was formed by appropriation of the rugged American frontier.

Synonyms

settlerism military frontier manifest destiny america first sovereignism proprietarianism freelander rugged individualism particularism vanguardism free-soilism ultranationalism

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