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Kentucky Countryside in Transition
Stephanie Bower
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Description for Kentucky Countryside in Transition
Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.
Kentucky Countryside in Transition charts the rise of the American middle class at the turn of the twentieth century by examining migration from the Kentucky countryside to suburban Louisville. The formation of the suburban middle class in Louisville was made possible by two factors: a boom in white-collar employment and the electric streetcar, an innovation that fundamentally changed the urban landscape. Ultimately a narrative of industrialization and modernity, this study focuses on a group of forty-two families who lived at the end of the Broadway Trolley line in an area that came to be known as the Cherokee Triangle. This ... Read more
Kentucky Countryside in Transition charts the rise of the American middle class at the turn of the twentieth century by examining migration from the Kentucky countryside to suburban Louisville. The formation of the suburban middle class in Louisville was made possible by two factors: a boom in white-collar employment and the electric streetcar, an innovation that fundamentally changed the urban landscape. Ultimately a narrative of industrialization and modernity, this study focuses on a group of forty-two families who lived at the end of the Broadway Trolley line in an area that came to be known as the Cherokee Triangle. This ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781621902003
SKU
V9781621902003
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About Stephanie Bower
Stephanie Bower is professor emeritus of history at the University of Indiana, Southeast, USA. She is the author of Famism: The Impact of Demographic Factors on Family Structure, and her articles have appeared in Hispanic American History Review, The Americas, LOCUS, and Historical Methods.
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