Reviewed by Timothy J. Shannon | Book Review | The William and Mary Quarterly, 66.2

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Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783–1815. By Timothy D. Willig. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 390 pages. $50.00 (cloth).

Reviewed by Timothy J. Shannon, Gettysburg College

Long the Rodney Dangerfield of Britain's North American colonies, Canada has finally been getting some respect. Three years ago Alan Taylor's The Divided Ground analyzed the postrevolutionary fate of the Iroquois on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. Timothy D. Willig has chosen to work on a canvas of similar chronological and geographic scope and, in his opening pages, he notes that "Taylor has nicely anticipated the history presented in the chapters that follow" (8). I doubt I will be the only reader who senses beneath that comment the lamentations of a historian who thinks he has been beaten to the punch. It seems only fair to ask, then, what does Willig have to say that significantly adds to or challenges Taylor's book or Colin G. Calloway's Crown and Calumet, the other authoritative study of this topic?¹ While Restoring the Chain of Friendship neither overturns nor supplants those earlier books, its well-considered conclusions about the fate of British Indian policy in postrevolutionary Canada win it a place on the shelf alongside them.

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