| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. by Richmond F. Brown. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xiv, 313 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-6267-6.)

The term "Gulf South" is problematic for a variety of reasons. Rarely employed by historians until the late twentieth century, the label has since then steadily appeared in studies dedicated to reinterpreting historical themes in early North America via a region long neglected in examinations of colonialism. But how does one define this locale? Does it consist only of the coastal strips bordering the Gulf of Mexico? Or, does it encompass the varied hinterlands contiguous to those coasts? Is the region constrained by traditional definitions of "the South" or does it include all continental lands that touch the Gulf of Mexico?

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