| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Margaret Connell Szasz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xvi, 285 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3861-9.)

The title of this book says it all. Margaret Connell Szasz's Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans explores the ways an overlooked mission society, the Scottish Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SSPCK), ministered to and hoped to civilize both of those groups in the eighteenth century. Szasz hopes that by juxtaposing the activities of the sspck in each place, or by bridging the processes of "internal and external colonialism," she can tell us something new about the nature of the broader Atlantic imperial world and its fringes (p. 6). As she puts it, the sspck's educational encounters represented an "experiment in cultural colonialism," one that proved "multifaceted" (p. 5). The group's activities "forged a crucial thread of the eighteenth-century frontiers that lay within Scotland itself as well as in the British colonies. These encounters have long awaited a storyteller" (ibid.).

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