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The Buzzel About Kentuck : Settling the Promised Land /
Touted as an American Eden during the Colonial Period, Kentucky provides dramatic social histories of early America from its days as a Shawnee hunting ground to a prosperous agrarian society bordered by the best river traffic during the nineteenth century. Ten noted historians explore ideas ranging...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction: The Buzzel About Kentuck; PART ONE: DEPENDENCE AND AUTONOMY; The Lower Shawnee Town on Ohio: Sustaining Native Autonomy in an Indian ""Republic""; Frontier Defenses and Pioneer Strategies in the Historic Settlement Era; ""This Idea in Heaven"": Image and Reality on the Kentucky Frontier; PART TWO: ENACTING EXPECTATIONS; Kentucky in the New Republic: A Study of Distance and Connection; ""Work & Be Rich"": Economy and Culture on the Bluegrass Farm.
- Opportunity on the Frontier South of the Green""The Poor Men to Starve"": The Lives and Times of Workingmen in Early Lexington; PART THREE: A REVISED PROMISED LAND; The Beginnings of Afro-American Christianity Among Kentucky Baptists; ""I Cannot Believe the Gospel That Is So Much Preached"": Gender, Belief, and Discipline in Baptist Religious Culture; ""There We Were in Darkness,
- Here We Are in Light"": Kentucky Slaves and the Promised Land; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.