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Book Review
| Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Margaret Connell Szasz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xv + 285 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
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Margaret Connell Szasz's book compares the experiences of populations challenged by an Anglophone British culture expanding around the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. For the Highland, Algonquian, and Iroquois communities analyzed here, the teachers and catechists of the Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SSPCK) were influential agents of that culture. Like other British educational and missionary groups established in the period, the SSPCK aimed to spread both Protestant Christianity and "civilization." |
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