Taking the town : collegiate and community culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 /

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Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local newspapers and from the work of historians and other writers, Kolan Thomas Morelock reveals Lexington...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morelock, Kolan Thomas, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : Univ. Press of Kentucky, ©2008.
Colección:Thomas D. Clark studies in education, public policy, and social change.
Temas:
1800-1999
Universities and colleges > Social aspects > Kentucky > Lexington > History.
College students > Kentucky > Lexington > Societies, etc. > History.
Clubs > Kentucky > Lexington > History.
Community life > Kentucky > Lexington > History.
Universités > Aspect social > Kentucky > Lexington > Histoire.
Étudiants > Kentucky > Lexington > Associations > Histoire.
Clubs > Kentucky > Lexington > Histoire.
Communauté > Kentucky > Lexington > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Clubs
College students > Societies, etc.
Community life
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Universities and colleges > Social aspects
Lexington (Ky.) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Lexington (Ky.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Lexington (Ky.) > Social life and customs.
Lexington (Ky.) > Social conditions.
Kentucky > Lexington
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : panning for gold
  • Lexington in the Gilded Age : public voices
  • "Put me in class with the widow who gave the mite" : Lexington's Joseph Tanner in the Gilded Age
  • Campus prominence : collegiate literary societies in nineteenth-century Lexington
  • Community presence : collegiate literary societies in Gilded Age Lexington
  • "This city's never dull" : public culture in Progressive Era Lexington
  • "In her most charming, characteristic way" : Lexington's Margaret Preston in the Progressive Era
  • The dramatic clubs take the stage : an extracurricular succession in prewar Lexington
  • Epilogue : Postwar Lexington : so long, Gilded Age
  • Appendixes.

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