| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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Book Review

Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492–1715. Indians of the Southeast. By Paul Kelton. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii + 288 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00, CAN $62.50, £29.00.)

The Columbian Exchange is one of the most influential concepts in modern historical scholarship and, perhaps because it has been so successful, one of the most monolithic. It is everywhere—in textbooks, scholarly works, popular lexicon—and the story always seems the same: organisms jump continents, the indigenous yields, colonialism triumphs. In Epidemics and Enslavement, Paul Kelton brings nuance to this well-worn master narrative. He puts Europe's most consequential biological export, disease, in wide historical context and argues that in the early Southeast, colonialism paved the way for disease rather than vice versa.

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