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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West

Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West

Friend, Craig Thompson

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryRegional: SouthRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1621903079
ISBN13: 9781621903079
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Jun 2 2017
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Before the National Road and the Erie Canal, another transportation revolution was underway in the United States. Beginning in the 1770s, the Maysville Road--a sixty-five-mile dirt trail that stretched from the Ohio River to the Bluegrass region of Kentucky--served as a stage upon which people wrestled with issues of power, identities, and worldviews. For six decades, the road provided a conduit through which political, economic, social, and cultural ideas circulated into and within the early American West. Andrew Jackson brought the trail to national attention when he vetoed Henry Clay's Maysville Road Bill in 1830. As an important migration route and the center of an early urban corridor, however, the Maysville Road had already made its mark on American history, offering a focal point for the cultural reconfiguration of the Early American Republic. Some of the era's most important events rumbled along its length as the road witnessed the rise of republicanism, democracy, urban development, refinement, an awakening middle class, revivalism, racial slavery, and nationalism.

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