This Place We Call Home: A History of Clark County, Indiana - Hardcover

Kramer, Carl E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253348501 ISBN 13: 9780253348500

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2007

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"Carl E. Kramer provides readers with a model county history.... He brings together in one person and one volume the outsider and the insider-the historian who objectively and carefully studies the past using the best sources available and the writer who knows and loves his home community." -from the foreword by James H. Madison "An excellent example of what a county history can be. It is well-written, well-researched, and its assertions are backed with proper evidence and citations. Kramer draws connections to important events in Indiana history as well as to events in the Louisville area that had major impacts on the development of the county. As such, he makes a major contribution to the history of southern Indiana." -Indiana Magazine of History

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Clark County, Indiana, has grown from a handful of small settlements and scattered farms at the Falls of the Ohio into a sprawling metropolitan region. Yet, as Carl E. Kramer describes in this wonderful new history, significant continuities help define the county. Middle-class business owners and farmers still serve as its leaders. Jeffersonian democracy, emphasizing localism and frugality, remains a central political value. Interlocking kinship, friendship, and associational networks, fostered by decades of demographic stability, remain a potent social and political force. The Ohio River maintains its powerful economic and cultural influence, and the paths of pioneer roads shape local development. These forces and shared experiences have created a close-knit community with a strong sense of place.

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0253348501
• ISBN 13: 9780253348500
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 664