| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Seth Mallios. The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 150. Cloth $44.75, paper $21.50.

Seth Mallios has accomplished the difficult task of introducing a new framework for understanding the closely related, and heavilystudied histories of Indian-colonial encounters at Ajacan, site of the small Jesuit mission on the James River (1570–1572), Roanoke Island (1584–1590), and early Jamestown (1607–1612). His argument is quite straightforward: Indians expected Europeans to trade with them in ways dictated by Native custom and protocol. When colonists met such expectations, relations between the parties tended to be peaceful; when they did not, hostility ensued, with the Indians often employing symbolic forms of violence that called attention to the Europeans' offenses. The causes, forms, and functions of Indian violence, in other words, made sense within a Native politico-cultural context.

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