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Books by Ray Allen Billington
  | | America's Frontier Heritage(Updated) (Histories of the American Frontier Series) by Ray Allen Billington, Foreword-Martin Ridge, Howard R. Lamar, Ray Allen Billingham Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1975 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-0310-3, ISBN: 0-8263-0310-2 "The hypothesis advanced in Frederick Jackson Turner's famous 1893 essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, has been debated by three generations of scholars. The pioneering experience, Turner suggested, accounted for some of the distinctive characteristics of the American people: during three centuries of expansion their attitudes toward democracy, nationalism and individualism were altered, and they developed distin ..." |
 | | The Far Western Frontier 1830-1860(Reprint) (Historians of the Frontier and American West) by Ray Allen Billington Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 1995 by Univ Of New Mexico Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1585-4, ISBN: 0-8263-1585-2 "This classic work of frontier history recounts the process of U.S. expansion into the Far West during the mid-nineteenth century. In just thirty years, thousands of pioneers pushed United States settlement from western Missouri and Arkansas into New Mexico, California, and Oregon. Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, Brigham Young, John C. Fremont, and Stephen Watts Kearny are only a few of the characters who appear in this colorful saga, which i ..." |
 | | American History Before 1877 by Ray Allen Billington Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2011 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-22465-3, ISBN: 1-258-22465-8 "With Questions And Answers. Littlefield College Outlines...." |
 | | The Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding(1st Edition) Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books (Routledge Library Editions: Historiography) (Volume 3) by Ray Allen Billington Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-19476-2, ISBN: 1-138-19476-X "This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by a more subtle form of bias that is more dangerous because it is less easily recognised. It deals in particular with the treatment of the Amer ..." |
 | | America's Frontier Heritage(Reprint) (Histories of the American Frontier) by Ray Allen Billington Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 1993 by Univ Of New Mexico Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1463-5, ISBN: 0-8263-1463-5 "The hypothesis advanced in Frederick Jackson Turner's famous 1893 essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, has been debated by three generations of scholars. The pioneering experience, Turner suggested, accounted for some of the distinctive characteristics of the American people: during three centuries of expansion their attitudes toward democracy, nationalism and individualism were altered, and they developed distin ..." |
 | | America's Frontier Heritage(1st Edition) (Histories of the American Frontier) by Ray Allen Billington Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 1966 by Holt, Rinehart And Winston ISBN-13: 978-0-03-067045-9, ISBN: 0-03-067045-4 "The hypothesis advanced in Frederick Jackson Turner's famous 1893 essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, has been debated by three generations of scholars. The pioneering experience, Turner suggested, accounted for some of the distinctive characteristics of the American people: during three centuries of expansion their attitudes toward democracy, nationalism and individualism were altered, and they developed distin ..." |
 | | Westward Expansion(Abridged) A History of the American Frontier by Ray Allen Billington, Martin Ridge, Henry E. Huntington Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of New Mexico Press Abridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1981-4, ISBN: 0-8263-1981-5 "When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses ..." |
 | | The Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding(1st Edition) Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books (Routledge Library Editions: Historiography) by Ray Allen Billington Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-19480-9, ISBN: 1-138-19480-8 "This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by a more subtle form of bias that is more dangerous because it is less easily recognised. It deals in particular with the treatment of the Amer ..." |
 | | American History Before 1877 with Questions and Answers(9th Edition) (Helix Book) by Ray Allen Billington, Martin Ridge Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1988 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8226-0026-8, ISBN: 0-8226-0026-9 "Two monumental works by D. S. Freeman describe fighting from the southern point of view: R. E. Lee (4 vols., 1934-1935), and Lee's Lieutenants (3 vols, 1942- 1944). Important biographical studies include B. P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln ( 1952), J. G. Randall, Lincoln the President, (4 vols., 1944- 1955), R. W. Patrick, Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet (1944), Rudolph Von Abele, Alexander Stephens (1946), and B. P. Thomas and H. M. Hyman ..." |
 | | Limericks, Historical and Hysterical(1st Edition) by Ray Allen Billington Hardcover, 127 Pages, Published 1982 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-01453-2, ISBN: 0-393-01453-3 "A discussion of the historical uses of the limerick accompanies irreverent, funny, and suggestive limericks which exemplify the limerick's classic form and reflect its role as a mirror of social change" |
 | | Limericks Historical and Hysterical by Ray Allen Billington Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1980 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33304-6, ISBN: 0-393-33304-3 "The limerick, one of the oldest and most challenging of verse forms, has traditionally been the plaything of Oxford dons, American academicians, and a sprinkling of men of wit. Historian Ray Allen Billington worked on his own collection for fifty years. Here is the cream of that collection--original and classical limericks, irreverent, spicy, funny, and, of course, suggestive.The book is divided into several parts: the historical uses o ..." |
 | | Westward expansion;(4th Edition) A history of the American frontier by Ray Allen Billington, James Blaine Hedges, Henry E. Huntington Hardcover, 864 Pages, Published 1974 by Collier Macmillan Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-02-309840-6, ISBN: 0-02-309840-6 "When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses ..." |
 | | Frederick Jackson Turner Historian, Scholar, Teacher by Ray Allen Billington Hardcover, 628 Pages, Published 1899 by Acls History E-Book Project ISBN-13: 978-1-59740-011-4, ISBN: 1-59740-011-4 |
 | | The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten A Young Black Woman s Reaction to the White World of the Civil War Era (Hardback) by Charlotte L. Forten, Ray Allen Billington Hardcover, 254 Pages, Published 2011 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-00700-3, ISBN: 1-258-00700-2 |
 | | American History Before 1877 by Ray Allen Billington Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2011 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-22017-4, ISBN: 1-258-22017-2 "With Questions And Answers. Littlefield College Outlines." |
 | | Frederick Jackson Turner Historian, Scholar, Teacher by Ray Allen Billington Paperback, 624 Pages, Published 2008 by Acls Humanities E-Book ISBN-13: 978-1-59740-432-7, ISBN: 1-59740-432-2 |
 | | The American Frontiersman An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 2 February 1954 by Ray Allen Billington 23 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-13: 978-0-7581-7300-3, ISBN: 0-7581-7300-8 |
 | | The Protestant Crusade 1800 1860 by Ray Allen Billington 514 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-13: 978-0-7581-4823-0, ISBN: 0-7581-4823-2 |
 | | Guides to American History Manuscript Collections in Libraries of the United States by Ray Allen Billington Published 2003 ISBN-13: 978-0-7581-6753-8, ISBN: 0-7581-6753-9 |
 | | The Journal Of Charlotte L. Forten A Young Black Woman's Reaction To The White World Of The Civil War Era by Charlotte L. Forten, Ray Allen Billington Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2011 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-11684-2, ISBN: 1-258-11684-7 |
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