A forested borderland dominated by American Indians in 1780, Ohio
was a landscape of farms and towns inhabited by people from all
over the world in 1830. The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio
Country in the Early Republic chronicles this dramatic and
all-encompassing change. Editors Andrew R.L. Cayton and Stuart D.
Hobbs have assembled a focused collection of articles by
established and rising scholars that address the conquest of Native
Americans, the emergence of a democratic political culture, the
origins of capitalism, the formation of public culture, the growth
of evangelical Protestantism, the ambiguous status of African
Americans, and social life in a place that most contemporaries saw
as on the cutting edge of human history. Indeed, to understand what
was happening in the Ohio country in the decades after the American
Revolution is to go a long way toward understanding what was
happening in the United States and the Atlantic world as a whole.
For The Center of a Great Empire, distinguished historians of the
American nation in its first decades question conventional wisdom.
Downplaying the frontier character of Ohio, they offer new answers
and open new paths of inquiry through investigations of race,
education, politics, religion, family, commerce, colonialism, and
conquest. As it underscores key themes in the history of the United
States, The Center of a Great Empire pursues issues that have
fascinated people for two centuries. ****ABOUT THE
AUTHORS----Andrew R. L. Cayton, distinguished professor of history
at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is the author of several
books, including Ohio: The History of a People and, with Fred
Anderson, The Dominion of War: Liberty and Empirein North America,
1500-2000 . Stuart D. Hobbs is program director for History in the
Heartland, a professional development program for middle and high
school teachers of history. Hobbs is the author of The End of the
American Avant Garde.
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