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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.4 | The History Cooperative
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December, 2007
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REVIEWS

British Buckeyes
The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700–1900

By William E. Van Vugt
(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 295. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00.)

This interesting and informative book focuses on the role played by British settlers in the development of Ohio, mainly in the nineteenth century. Some individuals helped to open the area before 1800 and immigration increased hugely after 1815, but the British still represented only twenty percent of foreign-born immigrants in 1850 and sixteen percent in 1880. The British struggled to adjust to the unfamiliar agricultural conditions they found in Ohio, but by mid-century they were introducing scientific methods and improving agricultural practice. Overall, they came from a broad spectrum of occupational backgrounds and possessed skills that ensured they would contribute disproportionately to the industrialization of Ohio, as well as enriching its educational and cultural attainments. These contributions were facilitated by the similarity of their language and cultural heritage to those of most Americans, which ensured that they would integrate more quickly and easily than other immigrant groups. . . .
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