| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500–1820. Ed. by Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy. (New York: Routledge, 2002. viii, 328 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 0-415-92538-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-415-92539-8.)

Negotiated Empires is an unusually cohesive volume of essays by fourteen different scholars, despite the fact that the topics range throughout North and South America and the Caribbean, with implications for the wider scope of British, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch empires in the early modern era. Because each essay extends the implications of the others, historians will benefit from reading the entire volume rather than only the essays in their particular area of expertise. The central interpretive idea connecting such different bodies of research is that all early modern European empires in the Americas were negotiated ones, in which peripheries carried considerable power and metropolitan centers rarely exercised the kind of control scholars have sometimes attributed to them. Several of the essays, moreover, force the reader also to reconsider which areas were peripheries and which should more productively be understood as occupying a more central position in the early modern colonial world. It is a significant contribution of the collection that at least half of the essays emphasize the importance of native peoples in shaping colonial peripheries and their negotiations with metropolitan authorities.

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