| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Native Americans and the Early Republic. Ed. by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-1873-1. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-8139-1913-4.)

In an omission that James H. Merrell in his commentary on the essays in this collection terms "nothing less than a profound failure of the historical imagination," historical accounts of the early republic until quite recently had little to say about Native American peoples during the half century between the end of the American Revolution and the administration of Andrew Jackson. Students would seldom guess, from reading the standard studies of the period, that most of the land mass of eastern North America during the early decades of American independence was still occupied by independent Indian nations, or that white expansion into both the Old Northwest and the Cotton Kingdom involved complex processes of interracial and intercultural interaction. It is indicative of a new understanding of our historical roots that the United States Capitol Historical Society has devoted one of the volumes in its Perspectives on the American Revolution series to Native Americans. . . .

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