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 sta...

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1. Verfasser: Sachs, Honor (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2015]
Schriftenreihe:The Lamar series in western history
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Zusammenfassung:"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 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."--Publisher description
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xv, 193 Seiten 2 Illustrationen, 2 Karten 25 cm

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