| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. By Susan Sessions Rugh. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xxi + 285 pp. Illustrations, map, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $45.)

In Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, Susan Sessions Rugh charts the development of Fountain Green, Illinois, a community in Hancock County, in the westcentral portion of the state. Beginning with the area's settlement in the 1820s, she follows Fountain Green through the century's end, as disparate groups of settlers from the southern, northern, and mid-Atlantic states made the area their own. In the course of the nineteenth century, farmers increasingly participated in the market, politics increasingly became Republican, and dissent largely disappeared. Of particular interest is Rugh's account of the influx and integration of Mormons into the area, followed by their expulsion by those who felt threatened by their presence. Rugh characterizes the Fountain Green that emerged from the nineteenth century as "Republican, Pennsylvanian, and Presbyterian," as a result of the workings of agricultural capitalism (p. 184). . . .

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