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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2007
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The Center of a Great Empire
The Ohio Country in the Early Republic

Edited by Andrew R. L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs
(Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 225. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paperbound, $19.95.)

The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic, edited by Andrew Cayton and Stuart Hobbs, was originally conceived to commemorate Ohio's 2003 bicentennial. This fine collection of seven essays mostly succeeds in its goal to launch "fresh conversations about the complex relationship between Ohio and the American republic" (p. 166). 1
      Patrick Griffin's "Reconsidering the Ideological Origins of Indian Removal" examines changing Indian-white relations in the Ohio Country following the Revolution. Griffin contends that historians have failed to appreciate the state's role in fostering anti-Indian attitudes. In the Ohio Country, the critical breakdown of relations and corresponding shift in state response that would eliminate the possibility of meaningful middle grounds was evident by 1791, in the aftermath of the Big Bottom "massacre." While intriguing, Griffin's essay is unclear in places, and is hampered by characterization of groups as representing either the "lower sorts" or the "elites." . . .
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