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Canada and the United States

Steven J. Oatis. A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680–1730. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. Pp. 399. $65.00.
The Yamasee War was one of a series of revolts and wars in the colonial South. It began with the Guale revolt of 1576, the first of a number of rebellions in the Spanish mission system in Florida. Next came revolts in the English sphere: Opechancanough's uprising in Virginia in 1622 and again in 1644; the Tuscarora War in North Carolina in 1711–1712; the Yamasee War in the lower South in 1715–1716; and finally the Natchez uprising in French Louisiana in 1729. In all of these revolts, the Native peoples planned in secret, launching surprise attacks that killed dozens or hundreds of people, and all ended in defeat for the perpetrators. The Yamasee War was unusual in that it included the participation, at varying levels of commitment, of Native societies across a wide swath of the South, and it had a powerful transforming effect on both the Carolina Colony and the Natives.	1
Steven J. Oatis's book is the most important contribution to our understanding of the Yamasee War since Verner Crane's magisterial The Southern Frontier, 1670–1732, first published in 1928 and still in print. Oatis has the advantage of having access to seventy-five years' worth of subsequent historical and archaeological research, and he makes good use of both in sketching out the social history of the context in which the various Native communities that were party to the Yamasee War were formed. A particularly valuable part of Oatis's book is his skillful depiction of the multiple-frontier colonial context in which the Yamasee War played itself out.	. . .

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