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.
Temas:
To 1792
Frontier and pioneer life > Kentucky.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Frontier and pioneer life
Kentucky > History > To 1792.
Kentucky > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1792.
Kentucky
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1 "Servant to Master"
  • CHAPTER 2 "To Live Independent"
  • CHAPTER 3 "Ruin Poor Families"
  • CHAPTER 4 "A Stroke of Manly Courage"
  • CHAPTER 5 "A New Race of Men"
  • CONCLUSION
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX.

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