Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War by Ramage, James A.

Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813134406)

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Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War by Ramage, James A.

Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War

$50.00
Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War by Ramage, James A.

Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War

$50.00
Format: Hardcover
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t is sometimes said that Kentucky joined the South after the Civil War, and many books have been devoted to studying the influence of the war and its aftermath on the Commonwealth. But less is known about the decades before the Civil War. In Generations of Hope: Kentucky, 1800-1865, James Ramage and Andrea Watkins explore this crucial but often overlooked period, finding that that the early years of statehood comprised an era of great hope and progress. Ramage and Watkins demonstrate how Kentuc

Author: James A. Ramage, Andrea S. Watkins
ISBN-10: 0813134404
ISBN-13: 9780813134406
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2011
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.42w x 1.39d

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Choice 04/01/2012
By James A. Ramage
By James A. Ramage
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James A. Ramage, Regents Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, is the author of John Wesley Hunt: Pioneer Merchant, Manufacturer, and Financier and Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan. He lives in Cold Spring, Kentucky.

Andrea S. Watkins is assistant professor of history at Northern Kentucky University. She lives in Independence, Kentucky.

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