| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Nancy Shoemaker. A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 211. $29.95.

Nancy Shoemaker approaches the history of early contact between Indians and Europeans from a new perspective: that they shared a set of assumptions about land, political authority, records of events, alliances, gender, and race that provided them with a common cultural ground on which to interact. It is an intriguing idea for which she makes a plausible case. Scholars have spent so much time focusing on cultural differences, she suggests, that they have ignored commonalities. Shoemaker does not deny the existence of difference. Indeed, most chapters end with the ways in which interaction between Indians and Europeans "enabled them to see their differences in sharper relief and ... construct new identities that exaggerated the contrasts between while ignoring what they had in common." (p. 3)

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