Running Mad for Kentucky

Frontier Travel Accounts

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2004
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-2313-4 (ISBN)

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The crossing of America's first great divide -- the Appalachian Mountains -- has been a source of much fascination but has received little attention from modern historians. In the eighteenth century, the Wilderness Road and Ohio River routes into Kentucky presented daunting natural barriers and the threat of Indian attack.

Running Mad for Kentucky brings this adventure to life. Primarily a collection of travel diaries, these day-to-day accounts illustrate the dangers thousands of Americans, adult and child, black and white, endured to establish roots in the wilderness. Ellen Eslinger's vivid and extensive introductory essay draws on numerous diaries, letters, and oral histories of trans-Appalachian travelers to examine the historic consequences of the journey, a pivotal point in the saga of the continent's indigenous people. The book demonstrates how the fabled soil of Kentucky captured the imagination of a young nation.

Ellen Eslinger, professor of history at DePaul University, is the author of Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism.

Foreword by Gordon S. Wood
The Problem of Power: Parties, Aristocracy, and Democracy in Revolutionary Thought
Jeffersonian Ideology Revisited: Liberal and Classical Ideas in the New American Republic
The Republican Interpretation: Retrospect and Prospect
Some Second Thoughts on Virtue and the Course of Revolutionary Thinking
Quid Transit? Paradigms and Process in the Transformation of Republican Ideas
The Constitutional Convention
The Federalist Papers
1787 and 1776: Patrick Henry, James Madison, the Constitution, and the Revolution
James Madison and the Nationalists, 1780--1783
The Hamiltonian Madison: A Reconsideration
The Practicable Sphere of a Republic: James Madison, the Constitutional Convention, and the Emergence of Revolutionary Federalism
Political Economy and the Creation of the Federal Republic
The Jeffersonians: First Principles

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.7.2004
Zusatzinfo	illus, map
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8131-2313-5 / 0813123135
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-2313-4 / 9780813123134
Zustand	Neuware