| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Charles A. Weeks. Paths to a Middle Ground: The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de Las Barrancas, 1791–1795. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005. Pp. x, 292. $45.00

Charles A. Weeks takes a familiar rubric, that of intricate negotiations among Europeans and Indians, adopts a recent trend of using Spanish sources, and applies both techniques to a new location and time period, the lower Mississippi valley during the early 1790s. The result is a detailed study that fills a gap in the historical literature and expands our understanding of the complexity of the southern frontier during the eighteenth century. Weeks focuses his investigation on the diplomatic relations that occurred and evolved between the Spanish and their native neighbors in the Gulf South region during the first half of the 1790s. He divides his book into three sections, with part one discussing the history of this culture of diplomacy, part two examining how this arrangement operated during this moment in time, and part three incorporating translations of pertinent documents related to this series of encounters. Taken altogether, this text gives a meticulous snapshot of a specific episode in history for better and for worse.

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