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Midwestern History and Culture
The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region
"Cayton and Onuf have tried to recapture a central place for region in our thinking while, at the same time, incorporating into their analysis the latest scholarship on gender, political behavior, etc. Theirs is a fine blending of the old and the old scholarship and new directions." ―Malcolm J. Rohrbough
"This is an ambitious work that . . . truly beongs on the 'must do' reading list of all midwestern and American historians." ―American Historical Review
" . . . an impressive interpretive work that will command the attention of regional historians and national scholars alike." ―Illinois Historical Journal
" . . . an excellent extended historiographic essay that seeks not only to locate the significance of the region created by the early land ordinance but also to raise issues for the historical examination of other regions of the country." ―South Dakota History
"What makes this book especially interesting and valuable is that it is informed by the post-modern scholar's view that knowledge can never be objective and eternally true; rather, it is subjective and socially constructed, shaped by the political, social, intellectual, and economic environments in which it is formed." ―Western Illinois Regional Studies
"The book's review of scholarship about the region is exhaustive, as well as brisk and lucid." ―American Studies International
" . . . a rigorous intellecutal analysis of the region's most important historiography." ―Gateway Heritage
" . . . an excellent book . . . " ―The Annals of Iowa
"What is impressive about this densely written work is the number of secondary works incorporated into the text and the importance of the authors' thesis of the considerable influence of happenings in the Midwest of the nineteenth century." ―North Dakota History
"There is . . . much to be praised in this book, and it will be frequently used and discussed by scholars of the early Midwest." ―Journal of American History
"This is an ambitious work that . . . truly beongs on the 'must do' reading list of all midwestern and American historians." ―American Historical Review
" . . . an impressive interpretive work that will command the attention of regional historians and national scholars alike." ―Illinois Historical Journal
" . . . an excellent extended historiographic essay that seeks not only to locate the significance of the region created by the early land ordinance but also to raise issues for the historical examination of other regions of the country." ―South Dakota History
"What makes this book especially interesting and valuable is that it is informed by the post-modern scholar's view that knowledge can never be objective and eternally true; rather, it is subjective and socially constructed, shaped by the political, social, intellectual, and economic environments in which it is formed." ―Western Illinois Regional Studies
"The book's review of scholarship about the region is exhaustive, as well as brisk and lucid." ―American Studies International
" . . . a rigorous intellecutal analysis of the region's most important historiography." ―Gateway Heritage
" . . . an excellent book . . . " ―The Annals of Iowa
"What is impressive about this densely written work is the number of secondary works incorporated into the text and the importance of the authors' thesis of the considerable influence of happenings in the Midwest of the nineteenth century." ―North Dakota History
"There is . . . much to be praised in this book, and it will be frequently used and discussed by scholars of the early Midwest." ―Journal of American History
192 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1990
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About the author
Andrew R.L. Cayton
28 books8 followersA specialist in the history of early America and the Atlantic World, Andrew Robert Lee Cayton was Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A native of Cincinnati, he received a B.A. with high honors from the University of Virginia and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from Brown University. He was previously a Visiting Professor of History at The Ohio State University as well as the John Adams (Fulbright) Professor of American Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, The Washington Post Sunday Book World, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reviews in American History, The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic and The Great Plains Quarterly.
His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, The Washington Post Sunday Book World, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reviews in American History, The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic and The Great Plains Quarterly.
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October 23, 2009
Largely an extended historiographical essay and therefore not an easy read, but it’s only 125 pages, and it’s rewarding for the patient reader. Deals primarily with the Old Northwest (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin), but much of it applies to Iowa as well.
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