Contemporary historians’ collective ability to transform the public's understanding of the past is on bold display in On Savage Shores. This book is a landmark feat of popular history, often thrillingly written. It will introduce a generation of nonexperts to Indigenous history, much like the successful revisionist works of Charles C. Mann or David Graeber and David Wengrow. Readers, much like the book's Indigenous discoverers, will encounter anew the Old World itself.
On Savage Shores also constitutes a contribution to scholarship in the field, along with works like Esteban Mira Caballos's Indios y mestizos americanos en la España del siglo XVI (2000) and El descubrimiento de Europa: Indígenas y mestizos en el Viejo Mundo (2023), Jace Weaver's The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927 (2014), Éric Taladoire's D'Amérique en Europe: Quand les Indiens découvraient l'Ancien Monde (1493–1892) (2014), Nancy van Deusen's Global Indios:...
