Reviews in North American Studies

Navin, John J.. The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2020. 212 pp. $17.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781643360546.$28.99 (paper), ISBN 9781643364186.

Reviewed by Jason Herbert (Historians At The Movies)
Published on H-AmIndian (September, 2023)
Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe (University of South Carolina Lancaster)

Dodds Pennock, Caroline. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. xvi + 302 pp. $26.98 (cloth), ISBN 9781524749262.

Reviewed by Timothy Shannon (Gettysburg College)
Published on H-Early-America (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)

Priest, Claire. Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 121. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xi + 226 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 9780691241722.

Weimer, Adrian Chastain. A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 384 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781512823974.

Greene, Lance. Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2022. 200 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780817321123.

Reviewed by Aubrey Lauersdorf (Auburn University)
Published on H-AmIndian (August, 2023)
Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe (University of South Carolina Lancaster)

Smith, Edmond. Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 376 pp. $32.50 (e-book), ISBN 9780300264494.$32.50 (cloth), ISBN 9780300257953.

Reviewed by Thomas M. Truxes (New York University)
Published on H-Early-America (August, 2023)
Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)

White, Ashli. Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 392 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300259018.

Reviewed by Jennifer M. Black (Misericordia University)
Published on H-Early-America (August, 2023)
Commissioned by Abby Chandler (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

Ellis, Elizabeth N.. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Illustrations. 330 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781512823097.

Mucher, Christen. Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession (Writing the Early Americas). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. 1 volume $35.00 (Paper), ISBN 9780813948256.

Carayon, Céline. Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 472 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781469652627.

Reviewed by Kelly Hopkins (University of Houston)
Published on H-Early-America (August, 2023)
Commissioned by Abby Chandler (University of Massachusetts Lowell)