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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Claudio Saunt. A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816. (Cambridge Studies in North American History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 298. Cloth $49.95, paper $17.95.

Continuity and change are central questions for all historians, but especially for students of Native American history. We work in an atmosphere of conflict and resistance orchestrated by the demands of foreign invaders, and radical, comprehensive change, it seems, is everywhere. Thus measuring and explaining change has become our preoccupation. We look to culture for continuity, to history for change, and with the maturation of ethnohistory we have a methodology for helping us make sense of the complex historical processes we study. The challenge is to interpret both continuity and change in ways that keep us rooted in the cultures of the people whose histories we write. It is not easy. 1

Claudio Saunt's new book is the best interpretation of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Creek and Seminole history extant. With rare insight and flashes of brilliance, Saunt has given us an idea of the Creeks in a period of momentous historical complexity that is riveting, sensible, and compelling. In part, the power of this book rests in Saunt's extraordinary research. No one has mined the Spanish record for this period as deeply as he, and many will share my astonishment at what he has discovered. If this book does nothing else, it will advertise the remarkable richness of the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida. . . .

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