Home Rule Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier |
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| Author:
| Sachs, Honor |
| Series title: | The Lamar Series in Western History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-15413-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2015 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $56.00 |
Book Description:
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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 the expansion of rights for white...
More DescriptionOn 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.