| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Book Review

River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790–1850. By Kim M. Gruenwald. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvi + 214 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

In this modern age, when the technologies of travel and communication make geography seem sometimes meaningless, can we perceive physical space as people in the past experienced it? Kim Gruenwald's brisk and persuasive study of the Ohio River Valley takes us back two centuries and helps us see the region as the early white settlers saw it, giving us a good perspective for thinking about the changing meaning of place as people defined and redefined their relationship to the landscape—and to each other.

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