| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793–1821. By Donald J. Ratcliffe. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. xii, 336 pp. Cloth, $52.50, isbn 0-8142-0775-8. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8142-0776-6.)

Donald J. Ratcliffe takes on the major interpretation of early Ohio politics, Andrew R. L. Cayton's The Frontier Republic (1986). Even Ratcliffe's title evokes his contest with Cayton, the leading proponent of the regionalist interpretation of early Ohio. (In fairness, I confess that my work also falls into the regionalist school.) Ratcliffe argues that the regionalists overemphasize the importance of northern and southern origins in determining political divisions and underemphasize partisanship. Ratcliffe asserts that the Ohio country had, from the statehood quarrels through the Era of Good Feelings, something much closer to a modern party system than historians generally credit. . . .

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