| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660. By Cynthia J. Van Zandt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 252 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-19-518124-1.)
As the title indicates, Cynthia J. Van Zandt's volume examines colonial encounters in America over eight decades or so from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth. Its geographical scope is broad: "from Iroquoia and northern New England in the north to the Outer Banks of modern-day North Carolina in the south" (p. 17). The focus is on the English, Dutch, and Swedish colonial adventures. French colonization is considered only when French exploring and trading expeditions make contact with the indigenous nations living on the lands from Chesapeake Bay to New England. Of the many indigenous nations who enter into the narrative, the most prominent are the Lenape, the Massawomeck, the Munsee, the Powhatan, and the Susquehannock. Van Zandt also considers the Africans on Manhattan Island who were brought by the Dutch.	1
In the introduction and first chapter, Van Zandt argues that all those groups "mapped" the changing world of colonial America, noting the cultural differences and political power of their neighbors. However, this is not a book about cartography; it uses "mapping as a metaphorical lens" (p. 9).	. . .

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