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The center of a great empire : the Ohio country in the early American Republic / edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Ohio--History--1787-1865.
- Ohio.
- Ohio--Social conditions--19th century.
- Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865.
- Ohio River Valley--History--18th century.
- Ohio River Valley.
- Ohio River Valley--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A forested borderland dominated by American Indians in 1780, Ohio was a landscape of farms and towns inhabited by people from all over the world in 1830. The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic chronicles this dramatic and all-encompassing change. Editors Andrew R.L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs have assembled a focused collection of articles by established and rising scholars that address the conquest of Native Americans, the emergence of a democratic political culture, the origins of capitalism, the formation of public culture, the growth of evangelical Protestantism, the ambiguous status of African Americans, and social life in a place that most contemporaries saw as on the cutting edge of human history. Indeed, to understand what was happening in the Ohio country in the decades after the American Revolution is to go a long way toward understanding what was happening in the United States and the Atlantic world as a whole. For The Center of a Great Empire, distinguished historians of the American nation in its first decades question conventional wisdom. Downplaying the frontier character of Ohio, they offer new answers and open new paths of inquiry through investigations of race, education, politics, religion, family, commerce, colonialism, and conquest. As it underscores key themes in the history of the United States,The Center of a Great Empire pursues issues that have fascinated people for two centuries.Andrew R. L. Cayton, distinguished professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is the author of several books, including Ohio: The History of a People and, with Fred Anderson, The Dominion of War: Liberty and Empire in North America, 1500-2000 . Stuart D. Hobbs is program director for History in the Heartland, a professional development program for middle and high school teachers of history. Hobbs is the author of The End of the American Avant Garde.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: The Significance of Ohio in the Early American Republic""; ""1 Reconsidering the Ideological Origins of Indian Removal""; ""2 The Changing Political World of Thomas Worthington""; ""3 Ohio Gospel""; ""4 The Evolution of Racial Politics in Early Ohio""; ""5 How Colleges Shaped a Public Culture of Usefulness""; ""6 “My whole enjoyment & almost my existence depends upon my friends�""; ""7 The Ohio Country in the Political Economy of Nation Building""; ""Afterword: New Directions in the History of Ohio in the Early American Republic""
- ""Bibliography""""Contributors""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (179-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8214-4151-5
- OCLC:
- 712628950
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