Home rule : households, manhood, and national expansion on the eighteenth-century Kentucky frontier / Honor Sachs.
"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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Lamar series in western history.
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Physical Description: | xv,193 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (153-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300154139 0300154135 |