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Home Rule [electronic resource] : Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier / Honor Sachs

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Sachs, Honor
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Households, manhood, and national expansion on the eighteenth-century Kentucky frontier
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Physical Description
xv, 193 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm.
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Contents
"Servant to master" -- "To live independent" -- "Ruin poor families" -- "A stroke of manly courage" -- "A new race of men."
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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9780300154139
0300154135
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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