Frontier Society

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The term Frontier Society (literal meaning: " borderland society") refers to a society that lives on the border of its cultural area, is aware of this border and defends it.

A frontier society can be clearly distinguished from a border society . Border Society describes a society on the borders of two cultures of the same kind, while a frontier exists between two different cultures.

features

A frontier society is characterized by cultural penetration and mixing through contact with societies outside of one's own culture. Frontier Societies often have the urge to expand.

Frederick Jackson Turner first imagined a Frontier Society with his work The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893), in which he claimed that American society was only through the Frontier , the boundary between civilized and urbanized society and of wild and untamed nature. The way American settlers dealt with the demands of the Wild West , Turner said, let old habits die, new experiences emerged and new institutions emerged.

Examples

  • Spain during the Reconquista (Christians - Muslims)
  • Austria in the Early Middle Ages (Christians - Hungarians )
  • Eastern Saxony in the Middle Ages (Christians - Slavs)
  • England in the Middle Ages (Anglo-Saxons - Celts)
  • Austria and Hungary in the Early and Middle Modern Era (Christians - Ottoman Muslims)
  • North America until 1900 (Wild West)

See also

literature

  • JMS Careless : Frontier and Metropolis: Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1987.
  • Alistair Hennessy: The Frontier in Latin American History. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 1978
  • William H. McNeil: Europe's Steppe Frontier 1500-1800 . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2011
  • Jürgen Osterhammel : The transformation of the world. A story of the 19th century . CH Beck, Munich 2009, Chapter VII: Frontiers. Submission of space and attack on nomandic life , pp. 465-564.
  • Achim Toennes: The «Frontier». Attempt to found an analysis concept , in: Yearbook for History of Latin America 35 (1998), pp. 280-300

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