ISBN:
0813125049
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9780813125046
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 422 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The Thomas D. Clark studies in education, public policy, and social change
Parallel Title:
Print version Taking the Town : Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917
DDC:
306.43/20976947
Keywords:
College students Societies, etc
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History
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Universities and colleges Social aspects
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History
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Community life History
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Clubs History
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Lexington (Ky.) Intellectual life 19th century
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Lexington (Ky.) Intellectual life 20th century
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Lexington (Ky.) Social life and customs
;
Lexington (Ky.) Social conditions
Abstract:
Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880--1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local newspapers and from the work of historians and other writers, Kolan Thomas Morelock reveals Lexington to be a city of contradictions: known as a cultural "Athens of the West," it also struggled with the poverty, ignorance, and bigotry characteristic of southern communities after the Civil War. Taking the Town examines the contributions to local culture made by the literary and dramatic clubs preval
Description / Table of Contents:
Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Lexington in the Gilded Age; 2. ""Put Me in Class with the Widow Who Gave the Mite""; 3. Campus Prominence; 4. Community Presence; 5. ""This City's Never Dull"" ; 6. ""In Her Most Charming, Characteristic Way""; 7. The Dramatic Clubs Take the Stage; Epilogue: Postwar Lexington--So Long, Gilded Age; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-394) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813125046.001.0001
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