Reviewed by Jose R. Torre | Book Review | The William and Mary Quarterly, LXV.4

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The Scottish Atlantic
Jose R. Torre, The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820. By Douglas J. Hamilton. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. 265 pages. $84.95 (cloth).
Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture. By Elaine G. Breslaw. Southern Biography Series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. 364 pages. $55.00 (cloth).
Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Margaret Connell Szasz. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 301 pages. $34.95 (cloth).
In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People, 1603–1703. By Barry Aron Vann. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 263 pages. $39.95 (cloth).

The Atlantic history paradigm, not long ago an innovative and exciting new interpretive framework, is now so deeply embedded in our historiographical consciousness that it has generated its own subfields. To the Atlantic slave trade we can now add an Atlantic Enlightenment, a Red or Revolutionary Atlantic, a Progressive Atlantic, a Black Atlantic, the Atlantic as the "New Social History," a Spanish Atlantic, a British Atlantic, an Atlantic Colonial World, and perhaps even a Scottish Atlantic. Atlantic history has even generated its own antithesis. In the new Atlantic studies matrix, Atlanticists, scholars of "circumatlantic flow," raise steely postcolonial theory and decolonizing methodologies to the "Eurocentric" ramparts erected by "parochial" and "ethnocentric" Atlantic historians. In this brave new watery paradigm, William Boelhower argues, the "colonizer's" version of history is challenged by a generation of scholars who are themselves the products of imperial exchange and thus keenly aware of the nuances of power.¹ Put simply, the new Atlantic studies matrix is, according to its advocates, an emancipatory project in opposition to the old Atlantic history.	. . .

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