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Article: Yankees in Paradise: The Pacific Basin Frontier.
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 1994
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By Arrell Morgan Gibson.(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 495. $40.00.)
One hundred years after Frederick Jackson Turner delivered his seminal essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," we are still engaged in a dialogue about the implications of his remarks. Those who read Yankees in Paradise: The Pacific Basin Frontier, Arrell Gibson's posthumous volume completed by John S. Whitehead, will find the Turnerian paradigm now applied to the broad scope of American expansion into the Pacific. Emulating the pattern of successive waves set forth in the Turnerian frontier as process, Gibson provides a parallel set of ...