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Kentucky Countryside in Transition - A Streetcar Suburb and the Origins of Middle-Class Louisville, 1850-1910 (Hardcover, 2nd)
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Kentucky Countryside in Transition - A Streetcar Suburb and the Origins of Middle-Class Louisville, 1850-1910 (Hardcover, 2nd)
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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 suburban neighborhood
was dominated by white-collar commuters who were driven to
Louisville by a desire to achieve the economic success that an
urban environment promised them but continued to embrace a
nostalgia for the country life they came from. In this meticulous
three-generation study, Stephanie Bower follows groups of families
as they make the transition from being rural farmers and
cultivators to city laborers and white collar workers. By mining
census records, city directories, and county records, as well as
diaries and memoirs, Bower carefully reconstructs the biographical
details of residents in an effort to paint a broad picture of life
in the Cherokee Triangle during this transformational period.
Regional studies of suburbanization during this pivotal era are
often overlooked in contemporary scholarship. Consequently, this
analysis will be of interest to those researching Louisville,
middle-class formation, and suburbanization, as well as to local
genealogists tracing their family histories.
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