| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review of the Frontier Thesis | 第16-37页 |
| ·Social and historical backgrounds to Turner’s Frontier Thesis | 第16-21页 |
| ·Turner’s explanation to those problems----expansion as a solution | 第21-24页 |
| ·The formation of American overseas expansionism | 第24-32页 |
| ·Alfred T. Mahan and American military expansion | 第32-37页 |
| ·Manifest Destiny in the 1890s and a “Large Policy” | 第32-34页 |
| ·Alfred T. Mahan’s theory of sea power and the building of the U.S. big navy | 第34-37页 |
| Chapter 3 Overseas Expansion----American-Spanish War (1898) | 第37-48页 |
| ·Social background before the American-Spanish War in 1898 | 第37-43页 |
| ·American-Spanish War as the turning point in the U.S. history | 第43-48页 |
| Chapter 4 The Practical Applications of the Frontier Thesis into Series of Overseas Expansions | 第48-64页 |
| ·The intimate relations among F.J. Turner, Brooks Adams and Theodore Roosevelt | 第48-51页 |
| ·Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy | 第51-59页 |
| ·Roosevelt’s Big Stick diplomacy (1899–1908) in Latin America | 第51-52页 |
| ·The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)—unrestricted American right to determine Caribbean affairs. | 第52-54页 |
| ·Roosevelt and the Open Door policy in China (1899-1900) | 第54-59页 |
| ·The deep impact of F.J. Turner upon Woodrow Wilson | 第59-64页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion The Dead End of American Expansionism | 第64-69页 |
| 参考文献 | 第69-73页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第73-75页 |
| 个人简历 在读期间发表的学术论文与研究成果 | 第75页 |
