| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Timothy R. Mahoney. Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 334. $54.95.

The early nineteenth-century settlement of the American Middle West overlapped, in many instances, with the firm establishment of the middle class as the most important group in a burgeoning and increasingly industrial market economy. Timothy R. Mahoney's book seeks to use this coincidence to account for the emergence of a middle-class culture in the region and, by extension, throughout the entire nation. Expanding the study of the upper Middle West that he began with River Towns in the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest, 1820–1870 (1990), Mahoney's current work concentrates on the creation of a shared set of urban social values. He goes to great lengths to show that, while his regional study may illuminate the lives of specific subjects in particular towns and a particular region, his larger purpose is to illustrate the development of a broader national layer of culture as it moved from the East, through the Middle West, and onto the western part of the nation. . . .

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