The buzzel about Kentuck : settling the Promised Land / / edited by Craig Thompson Friend ; foreword by James Klotter

• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1999; ©1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.9
• Soggetto topico: Frontier and pioneer life - Kentucky
• Soggetto geografico: Kentucky History To 1792; Kentucky History 1792-1865
• Persona (resp. second.): FriendCraig Thompson; KlotterJames
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction: The Buzzel About Kentuck; PART ONE: DEPENDENCE AND AUTONOMY; The Lower Shawnee Town on Ohio: Sustaining Native Autonomy in an Indian ""Republic""; Frontier Defenses and Pioneer Strategies in the Historic Settlement Era; ""This Idea in Heaven"": Image and Reality on the Kentucky Frontier; PART TWO: ENACTING EXPECTATIONS; Kentucky in the New Republic: A Study of Distance and Connection; ""Work & Be Rich"": Economy and Culture on the Bluegrass Farm ; Opportunity on the Frontier South of the Green""The Poor Men to Starve"": The Lives and Times of Workingmen in Early Lexington; PART THREE: A REVISED PROMISED LAND; The Beginnings of Afro-American Christianity Among Kentucky Baptists; ""I Cannot Believe the Gospel That Is So Much Preached"": Gender, Belief, and Discipline in Baptist Religious Culture; ""There We Were in Darkness,--Here We Are in Light"": Kentucky Slaves and the Promised Land; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
• Sommario/riassunto: Touted as an American Eden, Kentucky provides one of the most dramatic social histories of early America. In this collection, ten contributors trace the evolution of Kentucky from First West to Early Republic. The authors tell the stories of the state's remarkable settlers and inhabitants: Indians, African Americans, working-class men and women, wealthy planters and struggling farmers. Eager settlers built defensive forts across the countryside, while women and slaves used revivalism to create new opportunities for themselves in a white, patriarchal society. The world that this diverse group o
• Titolo autorizzato: The buzzel about Kentuck
• ISBN: 0-8131-8746-X; 0-8131-4951-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820935903321
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