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Home rule : households, manhood, and national expansion on the eighteenth-century Kentucky frontier /

On America's western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness, manhood, and patriarchal authority to help stab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sachs, Honor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Colección:Lamar series in western history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:On America's western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness, manhood, and patriarchal authority to help stabilize a politically fractious frontier. Honor Sachs combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging narrative to examine how conditions in Kentucky facilitated the expansion of rights for white men in ways that would become a model for citizenship in the country as a whole. Endorsed by many prominent western historians, this groundbreaking work is a major contribution to frontier scholarship.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 193 pages) : map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780300216530
030021653X