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Our Kentucky : A Study of the Bluegrass State /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Geography; Climate; Waterways; Place Names; Cities; Regions; Jackson Purchase; Pennyroyal; Western Coal Field; Bluegrass; Mountains; Summary; 2. The Ancient Past; Perceptions of Prehistory; Culture History; The Paleoindian Period; The Archaic Period; The Woodland Period; The Late Prehistoric Period; Summary; 3. Government and Politics; Kentucky's Constitution; Major Decision-Makers; The Legislature; The Governor; The Judicial Branch; Citizen Involvement in Decision-Making; Political Parties and Elections; Voting; Summary.
- 4. The People and Their Leisure Time5. The Antebellum Era, 1775-1860; The Movement to Statehood; Early Kentucky Politics, 1792-1816; The Old Court-New Court Struggle; Voting The Whig Dominance; The Uncertain Last Prewar Decade, 1850-1860; Summary; 6. Religion; The Frontier Beckons; The Great Revival; Into the Civil War Era; The Gilded Age and a New Century; A Nuclear and Ecumenical Era; Religion Today; Summary; 7. Slavery and Antislavery; Slave Life in Kentucky; Antislavery Effects; The Civil War and Slavery's End; Summary; 8. Race Relations after 1865; The First Decade of Freedom.
- A Segregated SocietyTearing Down Segregation, Building Equality; Summary; 9. At War, 1776-1991; The Frontier Era; The War of 1812; The Mexican-American War; The Civil War; The Spanish-American War; World War I; World War II; The Korean War and the Vietnam War; The Gulf War; The Balkans, a Different Kindof War; Summary; 10. Violence; Honor and the System of Justice; Assassinations; Lynchings and Other Acts of Racial Violence; Feuds; Tobacco Wars; Coal Conflicts; Summary; 11. Economics; The Economic Diversity WithinKentucky's Borders; Economic Regions in Kentucky.
- Eight Economic Regions in KentuckyKentucky from a National Perspective; 12. Women's Quest for Reform; Early Struggles for Women's Rights; The Clay Women; The Breckinridge Affair; Late Nineteenth-CenturyStatutory Reforms; The Ballot; Women and Urban Reform; Women and Rural Reform; Recent Reforms; Summary; 13. From War's End to the Great Depression, 1865-1930; Postwar Readjustment; Railroad Rivalry; Democratic Party Factions; Presidential Politics; Problems of the Late Nineteenth Century; A New Constitution; The Goebel Assassination; The New Century; Three Progressive Governors.
- The Gambling IssueToward the Great Depression; Summary; 14. Literature; Literature; Literary Resources; Early Writers; The Civil War Period; Local Color; Turn-of-the-Century Writers; A Kentucky Renaissance; Robert Penn Warren, a Literary Giant; Other Recent Writers; Summary; 15. Performing Arts; The Beethoven of America; Music Education in Pioneer Kentucky; Music Publishing in the Nineteenth Century; Shaker Music and Dance; From Magic Shows to Professional Theater; Theaters and Performing Arts Centers; Jazz Then and Now; Folk Music; Country Music; Bluegrass Music; Performing Arts Groups.