Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier

by Honor Sachs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300154135
• ISBN13: 9780300154139
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"