| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 193 pages) : map |
| Series |
The Lamar series in western history |
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Lamar series in western history.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 "Servant to Master" -- CHAPTER 2 "To Live Independent" -- CHAPTER 3 "Ruin Poor Families" -- CHAPTER 4 "A Stroke of Manly Courage" -- CHAPTER 5 "A New Race of Men" -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX |
| 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 help 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. Endorsed by many prominent western historians, this groundbreaking work is a major contribution to frontier scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Frontier and pioneer life
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| SUBJECT |
Kentucky -- History -- To 1792.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071965
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| Subject |
Kentucky
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015934197 |
| ISBN |
9780300216530 |
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030021653X |
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