| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy, editors. Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820. Foreword by Jack P. Greene and Amy Turner Bushnell. New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. 328. Cloth $80.00, paper $19.95.

"Negotiated authority" is certainly a timely historical notion. Forty years of "new" social history has empowered those disadvantaged because of race, gender, and class by discovering myriad ways in which their ancestors resisted, thwarted, moderated, or escaped oppression. The history of "out of doors" politics reveals how the disenfranchised challenged the élites. Recent parsing of the vocabulary of power demonstrates that while it gave legitimacy it also invited subversion. Early modern monarchies, nation states, and empires are increasingly seen as complex, interactive, mutable grids of political, economic, religious, and social hierachy. One thoughtful recent collection of essays, Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland (2001), edited by Michael J. Braddick and John Walter, has applied this idea to British history; the volume under review investigates the same theme in the new Atlantic history. Although many of the dead suffered oppression stoically, the current expanding "empire of rights" regards the most worthy and useful ancestors as those who fought, manipulated, or ignored what are represented as rather ineffective oppressors. Nine of the fourteen well-connected essays in this volume originated at a 1997 conference on negotiated authority in early modern empires, held at Michigan State University, and the other five contributions were solicited later by coeditors Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy "to cover areas not considered" (p. vii). . . .

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