The center of a great empire
Subtitle: the Ohio country in the early American republic
By: edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs
Contributors: Cayton, Andrew R. L. 1954-; Hobbs, Stuart D. 1961-
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio; Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865; Ohio -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865; Ohio River Valley -- History -- 18th century; Ohio River Valley -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-217) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the significance of Ohio in the early American Republic / Andrew R.L. Cayton; title: Reconsidering the ideological origins of Indian removal : the case of the Big Bottom "massacre" / Patrick Griffin; title: The changing political world of Thomas Worthington / Donald J. Ratcliffe; title: Ohio gospel : Methodism in the early Ohio / John Wigger; title: The evolution of racial politics in early Ohio / Ellen Eslinger; title: How colleges shaped a public culture of usefulness / Kenneth H. Wheeler; title: "My whole enjoyment & almost my existence depends upon my friends" : family and kinship in early Ohio / Tamara Gaskell Miller; title: The Ohio country in the political economy of nation building / Christopher Clark; title: Afterword : new directions in the history of Ohio in the early American Republic / Stuart D. Hobbs