The center of a great empire

Description:

"In this volume, distinguished historians of the American nation in its first decades question conventional wisdom. They emphasize contingency rather than inevitability and contention rather than progress. Downplaying the frontier character of Ohio, they offer new interpretations and open new paths of inquiry through investigations of race, education, politics, religion, family, commerce, colonialism, and conquest."--Jacket.

subjects: Social conditions,  Politics and government,  Frontier and pioneer life,  History,  Frontier and pioneer life, ohio,  Ohio, history,  Ohio, social conditions,  Ohio, politics and government,  Ohio river and valley, history

Places: Ohio,  Ohio River Valley

Times: 1787-1865,  19th century,  18th century