| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. By David J. Weber. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xx, 466 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-10501-0.)

In 1992 David J. Weber published a monumental work entitled The Spanish Frontier in North America, an overview of Spain's colonial experience in the so-called borderlands area at present lying within the boundaries of the United States. In the book under review here, he has expanded his gaze to include Spain's colonial frontiers (defined as zones of interaction between relatively equal counterparts) in Central and South America and has focused on "Spanish relations with unconquered Indians—or savages, as the Spaniards called them" (p. xiv) during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when officials throughout the Atlantic world fell under the influence of the Age of Reason. The result is a fascinating work, extremely well written and meticulously researched, that lives up to the high standard set by Weber's previous book.

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