| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810. By Andrew McMichael. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xiv, 226 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3004-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3023-5.)

Historians have tended not to spend much time or ink on the area known before 1815 as Spanish West Florida (parts of present-day Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama), or on how the United States acquired it. Most scholars assumed that Americans living in such borderland regions longed to return to American rule and did so at the first opportunity. However, a new generation of researchers, such as Andrew McMichael, are going back to the archives and learning that such assumptions are far too simplistic and perhaps wrong. Atlantic Loyalties is the most thorough look at the political, economic, and social makeup of the West Florida region to date, and it examines why its people did not reject Spanish rule until 1810.

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