Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier
(Part of the The Lamar Series in Western History Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300154135
ISBN13:9780300154139
Release Date:October 2015
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"
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