Domesticating the West

The Re-creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class

Автор: Brenda Jackson

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Издател: University of Nebraska Press

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In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard...

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Автор

Brenda Jackson

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2008

страници

184

EAN

9780803220751

ISBN

0803220758

Enbook ID

04922617

Издател

University of Nebraska Press

Теглоt

318

Размери

152 x 229 x 11

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In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed and disheveled postwar East, the Tannatts went west to Walla Walla, Washington Territory, to pursue their dreams of influence and status. Domesticating the West examines the motivations of late-nineteenth-century middle-class migrants who moved west to build communities and establish themselves as leaders. The West offered new opportunities for solidly middle-class eastern families who endured hardship, uncertainty, and displacement during the Civil War, and who struggled to carve out meaningful social space in the war's aftermath. Brenda K. Jackson places the Tannatts at the center of this movement and demonstrates how gender, class, and place affected the new migrants' abilities to integrate into their new communities. She also shows how easterners redefined themselves as leaders of a new, moral western environment through volunteerism and political participation. While many studies of westward expansion focus exclusively on the earliest pioneers, Jackson adroitly shows how later arrivals shaped the social, economic, and cultural growth of the nation. Brenda K. Jackson is an assistant professor of history at Belmont University.

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