| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Julie Anne Sweet. Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2005. Pp. x, 267. $39.95.

In this book, Julie Anne Sweet challenges in important ways works such as James F. Brooks's Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002), Jane T. Merritt's At the Crossroads: Indians & Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763 (2003), and Charles A. Weeks's Paths to a Middle Ground: The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791–1795 (2005) that have built on Richard White's concept of "the middle ground." Rather than focus on settlers' and first peoples' creation of unique cultural spaces over decades of close contact, Sweet instead focuses on the short-lived and singular points of negotiation that enabled the first nations and the founders of Georgia to achieve what each side desired. James Oglethorpe and the Georgians wanted secure access to land, military and political support against the Spanish and the French, and profitable trade. Likewise, Creeks and Cherokees sought trade and support as well as respect. The "temporary collaboration" that Sweet uncovers ended on the native side with the death of Tomochichi, an important liaison between Savannah and powerful inland nations, and, on Georgia's side, with its reorganization as a royal colony in 1752 (p. 8).

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