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内战结束以后,斯宾塞社会达尔文主义在美国风行一时,特纳通过导师的引介接触到了这股思潮并开始了对于美国社会进化问题的个性化思考。纵观特纳史学思想的演进历程,他毕生皆旨在通过历史解释来论证美国社会进化模式的特例性:由于适应和改造具有北美特色的“边疆”与“地域”环境,美国经历了不均衡的社会进化和文明成果的渐次累积;由于能够不断地寻找到外源性与内源性的新的发展空间,美国社会具有无限进化的可能。作为一种历史本体构想,特纳对于美国社会进化特例性的描述很难经得起具体史实的细致推敲,但其史学思想意义却不可低估。其中所隐含的民族主义与现时主义的史学诉求,恰为后镀金时代美国民族文化自立与思想自觉所亟须,故此,特纳的学说才在20世纪美国史学的职业化进程中和更广泛的社会文化领域产生了深远的影响。
After the civil war ended, Spencer social Darwinism prevailed in the United States. Turner came into contact with this trend of thought through the guidance of his mentor and began his personal thinking on the evolution of American society. Throughout the evolution of Turner’s historiographical thought, his life attempts to demonstrate the uniqueness of the evolutionary patterns of American society through historical interpretation: As a result of adapting to and adapting the “borderland” and “regional” environment with North American characteristics, the United States Has undergone gradual accumulation of unbalanced social evolution and civilizational achievements. Due to its constant search for new exogenous and endogenous development space, the United States has the possibility of infinite evolution. As a kind of historical ontology idea, Turner’s special description of the social evolution of the United States is difficult to withstand the detailed elaboration of specific historical facts, but its historical significance can not be underestimated. Implicit in the history of nationalism and the current doctrine of appeal, just for the post-Gilded era of American national culture self-reliance and ideological imperative, therefore, Turner’s doctrine only in the 20th century American historiography in the process of occupation and broader Social and cultural areas have had a profound impact.