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

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

Lamar Series in Western History

Honor Sachs

216 pages • first pub 2015 (view editions)

nonfiction gender history informative reflective medium-paced
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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,...

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