Tamara G. Miller | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. By Timothy R. Mahoney. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 334 pp. $54.95, ISBN 0-521-64092-X.)

In River Towns in the Great West (1990), Timothy R. Mahoney traced the development of a regional urban system based upon the steamboat in the upper Mississippi Valley and its subsequent transformation with the advent of the railroad. According to that account, urban development in the Midwest was determined primarily by economic and geographic factors. In Provincial Lives, Mahoney revisits the same towns during the same years and focuses on individuals as social rather than economic beings to tell the story of the rise and fall of a distinctive urban society and a regional middle class. . . .

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