| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131.2

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The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity. By Gabrielle M. Lanier. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xvii, 250 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, list of primary sources, index. $46.95.)

With The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic, Gabrielle Lanier brings a fresh perspective to the thorny question of what makes "the motly middle" of the mid-Atlantic distinctive. Her carefully written and insightful work will be of interest not only to enthusiasts of Delaware Valley history, but to anyone intrigued by the processes of regional identity formation, especially as these are mapped to the physical landscape. For Lanier's careful reading of cultural landscape by way of everyday architecture introduces an important new perspective to the ongoing conversion about mid-Atlantic regionalism among historians of early America, including Michael Zuckerman, Wayne Bodle, Jack P. Greene, and David Hackett Fischer. Her introduction of this expanded approach to a historically vexing yet crucial early American region may well be the best gift of this study.

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