TY - BOOK ID - 80836699 TI - Home Rule : Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier PY - 2015 SN - 9780300216530 030021653X 9780300154139 0300154135 PB - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Kentucky KW - History KW - Kentucky - Politics and government - 18th century. KW - To 1799 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80836699 AB - 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 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. ER -