| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John Oliphant. Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier 1756–63. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2001. Pp. xvii, 269. $39.95.

John Oliphant's careful study of Anglo-Cherokee relations during the "Great War for the Empire" deserves attention from every serious student of that phase of American colonial history. It is a "Who's Who" of Cherokee leaders; perhaps never before have so many chiefs and warriors been identified and characterized. Here also is the usual cast of British officials. Oliphant demands much of his readers; he assumes a general background knowledge, and he requires attention to detail. He introduces his personae without attempting to give their prior history. 1

His research is impressive, and references to other histories of the Cherokees are frequent. He seldom accepts the conclusion of another historian without careful scrutiny. With reference to an opinion of the Indian trader James Adair, he writes, "but the historian in search of proof might not be convinced" (p. 84). Oliphant is certainly the skeptical searcher for historical truth, and as such, his opinions bear the weight of authority. Occasionally, his caveats are of degree rather than of kind. For example, he rejects the notion that South Carolina Governor William Henry Lyttelton brought on the Cherokee War out of a desire for military glory; rather "he needed a Cherokee policy sufficiently tough to win general approval" (p. 71). Lyttelton might have thought that one would lead to the other. . . .

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