| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810–1870. By Richard F. Nation. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiv, 274 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-34591-X.)

In this cautionary tale of the hill country of antebellum Indiana, Richard F. Nation argues that Hoosiers' strongly localist world view shaped both their approaches to the market and their political preferences. The Civil War partly eroded their resistance to integration into the larger nation, but in its aftermath the culture of the hill country degenerated into one of racial hatred, lynching, and economic marginality. A half-century later, much of the farmland had been returned to forest, the agrarian dream dispelled. Nation succeeds in his aim to tell the story of those outside the mainstream, but his analysis of why localism persisted is not as convincing.

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