...Robert C. Schwaller Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900 . By Sluyter Andrew . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2012 . xii + 308 pp., preface, notes, index . $45.00 cloth.) Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory...

...: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Margaret Connell Szasz. (Nor- man: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xv + 281 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $34.95 paper.) Kate Williams, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities In her new...

... determined consumption. To understand power in early America, LaCombe, who argues that in the Atlantic and Algonquian worlds “authority was rooted in a leader’s control of the food supply” (66), analyzes how settlers and Native Americans shared, withheld, presented, and wrote about food. Using...

...Victor M. Uribe-Uran The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America . By Sanders James E. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . xi+339 pp., prologue, introduction, maps, images, bibliography, index . $94.95...

...Sami Lakomäki Abstract Between 1795 and 1808 several Shawnee orators recounted to British and US officials a story about a Shawnee voyage to England. These narratives push scholars to reconsider the Atlantic world paradigm from an Indigenous perspective. They reveal Native constructions of space...

...Craig Buettinger Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator . By Schafer Daniel L. . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . xiv+336 pp., introduction, illustrations, appendixes, endnotes, bibliography, index . $29.95 cloth...

...Autumn Quezada de Tavarez The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World . By David Kazanjian . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . 336 pp., introduction, images, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index . $26.95 paperback.) Copyright...

...C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927 . By Weaver Jace . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . xiv + 340 pp., preface, introduction, maps, index . $29.95 cloth.) Copyright 2015 by American...

... on board captured slave ships to provide information to British naval officers. Numerous interpreters and translators were Africans or African descendants. Using language skills and knowledge of the Atlantic world, these “Atlantic Creoles” defended personal freedoms and the human rights of others during...

...Steven J. Peach This essay reinterprets the life of a famous Muscogee Creek leader and examines the relationship between chiefly power and foreign travel in American Indian studies and Atlantic world studies. In spring 1734, the Creek headman Tomochichi and British imperialist James Edward...

... the cartographic milieu of the Spanish Atlantic world through a study of cartographic elements that closely resemble those found in Alonso de Santa Cruz's 1542 world map. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014 Indigenous Commentary on Sixteenth-­Century Mexico City John F. López...

... point. This overly determined perspective obscures the extent to which native social formations in the Great Lakes and western interior operated and evolved independent of their relationships to the empires of the Atlantic world. It concludes that, from an alternative indigenous framework, European...

... Atlantic World. Recognizing the power of these claims, his opponents eventually succeeded in undermining Norton’s self-presentation, eventually resulting in his political marginalization and ultimately in his exile from the Grand River under pain of death. On 2 June 1815, a deputation from the Six...

... in the Spanish empire in the Americas. Further inquiry into law production by legal actors positioned across the Atlantic is necessary, however, in order to approach the ethnohistorical aspects involved in the legal formation of the Spanish empire in contexts removed from the world of the Spanish elites...

.... Edited by Sarah E. Owens and Jane E. Mangan. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. vi + 278 pp., introduction, index. $26.95 paper.) Robert C. Schwaller, University of Kansas The rise of the Atlantic world as a focus of study has helped to reshape the ways in which we study...

.... Edited by Sarah E. Owens and Jane E. Mangan. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. vi + 278 pp., introduction, index. $26.95 paper.) Robert C. Schwaller, University of Kansas The rise of the Atlantic world as a focus of study has helped to reshape the ways in which we study...

... with them, from Christianity to private property. These material and ideological forces made British North America unique and new. The Atlantic world economy came to an abrupt end after the American Revolution, because Native Americans no longer seriously challenged American conceptions of property...

.... $39.95 cloth.) Tracy Neal Leavelle, Creighton University Brett Rushforth’s book on indigenous slaveries in New France and in the larger Atlantic world is provocative in the best sense of the term. Rush- forth accessed archives in North America, Europe, and the Caribbean and pieced together widely...

... for Ethnohistory 2023 While recent works in Atlantic world history and related fields have increasingly emphasized the multiplicity of people and ideas that contributed to the production of colonial scientific knowledge, few have adequately addressed Amerindian perspectives of and participation in these cross...

... for Ethnohistory 212 Book Reviews in the South Atlantic world, Mina, for example, had become a generic designation for West Africans who often embraced a second marker—for Soares, their provenience— as a more precise expression of their identity. The group...