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Bluegrass renaissance : the history and culture of central Kentucky, 1792-1852

Title: Bluegrass renaissance : the history and culture of central Kentucky, 1792-1852 / edited by James C. Klotter and Daniel Rowland.
Publication: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2012.

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Description

vi, 371 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. Overview and Comparisons -- Central Kentucky's "Athens of the West" Image in the Nation and in History / James C. Klotter -- Putting Kentucky in Its Place / Stephen Aron -- Kentucky's "Athens of the West" Viewed in a "Distant Mirror" / Shearer Davis Bowman -- Part 2. Facets of Life -- Slavery and Abolition in Kentucky : "Patter-rollers were everywhere" / Gerald L. Smith -- "Mrs. Boone, I presume?" : In Search of the Idea of Womanhood in Kentucky's Early Years / Randolph Hollingsworth -- "A richer land never seen yet" : Horse Country and the "Athens of the West" / Maryjean Wall -- Three Central Kentuckians, the "Bone" of Political Office, and the Kentucky Exodus, 1792-1852 / Mark V. Wetherington -- Part 3. Science, Arts, and Education -- Jewels in the Crown : Civic Pride and Educational Institutions in the Bluegrass, 1792-1852 / John R. Thelin -- Horace Holley and the Struggle for Kentucky's Mind and Soul / Tom Eblen and Mollie Eblen -- Living Hills : The Frontier Science of Rafinesque / Matthew F. Clarke -- Lexington Limners : Portrait Painters in the "Athens of the West" / Estill Curtis Pennington -- Public Music Making, Concert Life, and Composition in Kentucky during the Early National Period / Nikos Pappas -- Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Neoclassical Lexington / Patrick Snadon -- Afterword / by Jim Gray.

Call Number

JFE 13-220

ISBN

9780813136073 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0813136075 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780813136639 (pdf)
0813136636 (pdf)
9780813140438 (epub)
0813140439 (epub)

LCCN

2012019013
40021249322

OCLC

757463363

Title

Bluegrass renaissance : the history and culture of central Kentucky, 1792-1852 / edited by James C. Klotter and Daniel Rowland.

Imprint

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Klotter, James C.

Rowland, Daniel B. (Daniel Bruce), 1941-

Other Standard Identifier

40021249322

Research Call Number

JFE 13-220

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