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Reviews
Along the Maysville Road The Early Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West
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By Craig Thompson Friend
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(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. 378. Figures, maps, appendix, notes, index. $42.00.)
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| Most undergraduates in the U.S. history survey briefly encounter the Maysville Road when they study Jacksonian-era battles over federal support for internal improvements. For those who want to know more about how this backcountry road became the center of a national controversy, Craig Thompson Friend's Along the Maysville Road takes readers back to the Revolutionary era, making the sixty-five-mile route through north-central Kentucky the organizing principle for a social history of the state during the early republic. |
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