Frontierism
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Frontierism is a noun meaning (politics) Support 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.
Meaning
(politics) Support 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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include settlerism, sovereignism, proprietarianism, particularism, vanguardism, ultranationalism.
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