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Reviewed by J. Clark Archer | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.3 | The History Cooperative
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The American Midwest
An Interpretive Encyclopedia

Edited by Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press for Ohio State University, 2007. Pp. 1892. Index, maps, tables, illustrations. $75.00.)

It is a rare and rewarding experience to read a place-based reference work focused on the entire midwestern region of the United States. Ordinarily, such works deal with the nation as a whole or with an individual state, so that readers encounter either too little sub-national detail or too much inconsistency in coverage from one state to another. The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia is thus a welcome and instructive volume, which treats the vernacular Midwest—an area covering much of the upper Mississippi–Ohio–Missouri River drainage basin from the Appalachian Plateaus on the east to the Great Plains on the west—as a coherent and unified region. . . .
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