| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early American Republic. Ed. by Andrew R. L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. viii, 225 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8214-1620-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8214-1648-0.)

Intended as a "major contribution" by the Ohio Historical Society to the state's bicentennial celebration in 2003, The Center of a Great Empire grew out of sessions on Ohio and the Ohio country at the meeting the same year of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (p. vii). This collection of seven essays, framed by an introduction and an afterword by the editors, Andrew R. L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs, respectively, places the early history of Ohio in the context of nation building and national development, represents present knowledge about the state in this period, and suggests directions for future research. Underscoring the volume's dual purpose as summation and point of departure is a concluding bibliography of all secondary works, including dissertations, published since 1940 about Ohio between 1789 and 1850.

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