| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, editors. New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas. (Early American Studies.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. vi, 362. $49.95.

Comprised of revised essays presented at a conference of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, these eleven chapters, along with an introduction and afterword by the editors, are fascinating case studies of how authority was both brutal yet precarious and malleable in the French, Spanish, English, and Dutch empires of the New World. In the eloquent essay that begins the volume, Christopher L. Tomlins links the racial violence portrayed on the English stage with the practices and justifications for colonization. William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe tell us that the Elizabethans knew what they were about—and its ethical problems. Tomlins also demonstrates how either ignorance or willful avoidance of the need to conquer a continent continued in U.S. law and legal texts, becoming the foundation to justify the social order that persists to this day.

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