| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier. By Cynthia Cumfer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xii, 324 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3151-9. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5844-8.)

Cynthia Cumfer's valuable study explores the intercultural encounters and intellectual currents that shaped the Tennessee frontier from 1768 to 1810. Arguing that the three groups named in her title "brought dissimilar intellectual approaches" to the encounters (p. 2), Cumfer seeks to complicate the theory of the "middle ground": though she agrees that contact "inevitably produces changes in the cognitive worlds of those in each society" (p. 4), she maintains that those changes may aggravate rather than annul cultural difference.

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