| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior. By Eric D. Olmanson. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xviii, 276 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1707-2.)

In his introduction, Eric D. Olmanson carefully distinguishes this book from a traditional regional geography. Rather than designating a region and then tracing its emergence, Olmanson begins along the south shore of Lake Superior and only slowly focuses on a particular place. That place is the area around Ashland, Wisconsin, and Chequamegon Bay. Although The Future City on the Inland Sea offers much of value about the nineteenth-century history of that region, the title promises more than the book delivers.

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