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Author: John B. Boles
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813158370
Size: 33.89 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Book Description: Religion permeated the day-to-day life of antebellum Kentucky. This engaging account of Kentucky's various Christian denominations, first published as part of the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, traces the history of the Great Revival of 1800--1805, the subsequent schism in Protestant ranks, the rise of Catholicism, the development of a distinctive black Christianity, and the growth of a Christian antislavery tradition. Paying special attention to the role of religion in the everyday life of early Kentuckians and their heritage, John B. Boles provides a concise yet enlightening introduction to the faith and the people of the Bluegrass State. Religion In Antebellum Kentucky is an excellent survey of religion and its significance in the first eighty-five years of Kentucky's history.

Author: Pem Davidson Buck
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 1583678336
Size: 61.59 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Book Description: Examines the roots of white supremacy and mass incarceration from the vantage point of history Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming “liberty and justice for all”? The Punishment Monopoly challenges our everyday understanding of American history, focusing on the constructions of race, class, and gender upon which the United States was built, and which still support racial capitalism and the carceral state. After all, Buck writes, “a state, to be a state, has to punish ... bottom line, that is what a state and the force it controls is for.” Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites. Those struggles led to the creation of the low-wage working classes that capitalism requires, locked in by a metastasizing white supremacy that Buck’s ancestors, with many others, defined as white, helped establish and manipulate. Examining those foundational struggles illuminates some of the most contentious issues of the twenty-first century: the exploitation and detention of immigrants; mass incarceration as a central institution; Islamophobia; white privilege; judicial and extra-judicial killings of people of color and some poor whites. The Punishment Monopoly makes it clear that none of these injustices was accidental or inevitable; that shifting our state-sanctioned understandings of history is a step toward liberating us from its control of the present.

Author: Margaret A. Hogan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 72.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Author: ed HILL
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN:
Size: 46.17 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Book Description: "The publication of the Encyclopedia of Religion in the South in 1984 signaled the rise in the scholarly interest in the study of religion in the South. Religion has always been part of the cultural heritage of that region, but scholarly investigation had been sporadic. Since the original publication of the ERS, however, the South has changed significantly in that Christianity is no longer the primary religion observed. Other religions like Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism have begun to have very important voices in Southern life. This one-volume reference, the only one of its kind, takes this expansion into consideration by updating older relevant articles and by adding new ones. After more than twenty years, the only reference book in the field of religion in the South has been totally revised and updated. Each article has been updated and the bibliography has been expanded. The ERS has also been expanded to include more than sixty new articles on religion in the South. New articles have been added on such topics as Elvis Presley, Appalachian music, Buddhism, Bill Clinton, Jerry Falwell, Fannie Lou Hamer, Zora Neale Hurston, Stonewall Jackson, popular religion, Pat Robertson, the PTL, sports and religion in the South, theme parks, and much more."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 64.41 MB
Format: PDF
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Kentucky Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 53.33 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: William J. Cooper
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN: 9780070644380
Size: 30.50 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Book Description:

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 79.50 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Religion and culture
Languages : en
Pages :
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Book Description:

Author: William James Cooper (Jr.)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN: 9780072460599
Size: 54.20 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Book Description: In The American South, the authors demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the south from the history of the United States. Their analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct region and the South as an inescapable part of the United States. They show how the resulting tension has often propelled section and nation toward collision. In supporting their thesis, the authors draw on the tremendous amount of profoundly new scholarship in Southern history. There is a substantial biographical essay which will provide the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South.

Author: Shelby M. Balik
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 74.90 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Author: Paul William Patton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 45.27 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Adair County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Book Description:

Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN: 9780835216029
Size: 60.80 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 4389
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Book Description: "Prepared by the R.R. Bowker Company's Department of Bibliography in collaboration with the Publications Systems Department"--Page opposite t.p. Includes indexes. Author Index ... 3901-4069 Title Index ... 4071-4389.