| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Craig Thompson Friend. Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 378. $42.00.

Most scholars remember the Maysville Road as a source of controversy during the administration of Andrew Jackson, as the president vetoed a bill to fund improvements of the road—the pet project of his rival, Henry Clay. Craig Thompson Friend's new book convinces us that the road was much more than that. He demonstrates that the Maysville Road offers modern readers a new path to understanding "social and cultural change in the Early American Republic" (p. 4). Among other subjects, the book explores the evolution of society in the trans-Appalachian West, the rise of the market economy and middle-class cultural dominance, and environmental change in the early republic.

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