| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700–1900. By William E. Van Vugt. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2006. xiv, 295 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-87338-843-7.)

The British are often overlooked as an immigrant group, because they seemed to meld so quickly into the native Anglo-American population. Yet, while many students of American history know the rudimentary significance of British immigration, their migration merits careful analysis. In Ohio, British immigrants comprised a complex economic and social group that tended to emigrate from specific areas. No matter what their origin was in Great Britain, however, they had two defining characteristics—industrial skills and cultural similarities—that enabled them to assimilate, if not acculturate, quickly.

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