Home Rule
Subtitle: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Oct 27, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780300154139
Description: "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.
Notes: Source title: Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier (The Lamar Series in Western History)