| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America. By Colin G. Calloway. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxii, 368 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-534012-9.)

Colin G. Calloway's successfully wide-ranging study takes up two major historiographical challenges. The first has to do with comparison. That early modern Gaels and Native Americans were frequently slighted in similar terms as uncivilized is well documented, but specific analysis of traits and experiences that their societies shared or did not share has been scarce, as have been efforts to define precisely when and how their histories diverged. The second challenge concerns connection. The Scottish historiography on Highland-indigenous interactions in North America and elsewhere is ambivalent, with some studies finding cultural affinities while others emphasize conflict and territorial competition. Calloway's nuanced approach yields persuasive conclusions on both counts.

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