| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity. By Gabrielle M. Lanier. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xx, 250 pp. $46.95, ISBN 0-8018-7966-3.)
Of all the regions of America, perhaps the least understood is the Mid-Atlantic. Some scholars have gone so far as to suggest that it is not a single region because of its diverse cultural traditions. Others argue that diversity is the defining characteristic of the region dating back to the seventeenth century, when most of it was part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland.	1
Gabrielle M. Lanier's new book takes regionalism to a new level of complexity by exploring the relationship among ethnicity, regional identity, and localism in three places in the lower Delaware Valley in the period from 1780 to 1830. The three localities are Warwick Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Northwest Fork Hundred in Sussex County, Delaware, near the Maryland border; and Mannington Township in Salem County, New Jersey. Each represents a different cultural landscape and a different relationship between people and the material landscape.	. . .

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