The two frontiers (Registro nro. 119415)
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| LC control number | 30004952 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | DK |
| -- | E151 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Fletcher, John Gould, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1886-1950 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The two frontiers |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-05-17 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Sean (@parchmentglow) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The two frontiers" by John Gould Fletcher is a study in historical psychology and comparative history written in the early 20th century. It explores the parallel rise of Russia and the United States as river-born civilizations, reading history through symbolic lenses of art, religion, geography, and climate to illuminate present choices. Fletcher critiques both complacent progress-worship and nostalgic pessimism, arguing for a myth-informed, value-centered understanding that can direct the future.<br/><br/>The opening of this study argues that history should guide the present rather than serve as antiquarian recovery, and proposes reading civilizations symbolically through their art and religion. It contrasts Egypt (tomb cult, Osiris-Amen-Ra synthesis, totemistic substrata, stable river life) with Babylonia (astral gods, shamanism, law and custom, element-driven climate), then pivots to the sixteenth-century crisis in Europe and two “small” turning points—Columbus’s westward voyage and Sophia’s marriage to Ivan III—as seeds of modern world-history. Fletcher advances a fivefold environmental typology and applies it to North America and Russia as river cultures, tracing American local self-government, religious diversity, and frontier settlement (against Spanish exploitation and French trading networks) while likening the colonies to Egyptian nomes. In parallel he outlines Muscovy’s consolidation under Ivan III and Ivan IV, the autocratic turn, the “Time of Troubles,” Romanov recovery, and the entrenchment of serfdom, framing Russia’s relentless drive for a sea outlet. He then follows the colonies from Bacon’s Rebellion through charter crises to the Glorious Revolution, Peter the Great’s westernizing statecraft, and the Anglo-French colonial wars that forged American solidarity. The section culminates in the dualisms that will define both nations—Russian autocracy versus peasantry and American North-versus-South—and sets Catherine the Great and George Washington as emblematic figures, before surveying Europe’s fractured post-medieval unity and the divergent inheritances of “Third Rome” Moscow and republican-minded America shaped by harsh climates and mobile frontiers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1930 |
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| Uncontrolled term | United States -- Civilization |
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| Uncontrolled term | Soviet Union -- Civilization |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/twofrontiers0000john/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/twofrontiers0000john/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78697">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78697</a> |
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