| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Alden T. Vaughan. Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxv, 337. $50.00.
Contributing significantly to the burgeoning scholarship about colonial peoples traveling to England during the early modern period, Alden T. Vaughan reconstructs the life experiences of virtually all the Inuit and North and South American Indian males and females who made the voyage prior to 1776. He strategically concentrates on this particular set of sojourners, enabling him to identify specific patterns of experience, reception, and consequence over distinct chronological phases. The earliest endured or perished from abduction by Englishmen as alleged primitive specimens for display in England; many of the latest came voluntarily as tourists or justice seekers protesting in London against oppression by Anglo-American colonists and often gained prestige at home for their efforts. Meticulously using the limited and—with one major exception—indirect sources available about each Indian, Vaughan richly demonstrates what the visit meant for him or her and for American and British history.	1
Vaughan for the most part clearly delimits his subjects geographically, chronologically, and ethnically. Focusing on the 175 indigenous people from North or South America who sojourned in the British Isles, he only briefly mentions the far more numerous ones who traveled elsewhere in Europe. He starts with the earliest visitors to England whom he can identify and stops with what he calls "Britain's civil war" of 1776 (p. 208), a logical terminus for Americans living in or around the thirteen colonies, if not those far north or south of them. Vaughan excludes all settled African and Euro-Americans and also people of mixed Indian and European or African descent, unless they were culturally "Indian" (e.g., pp. 182, 225, 329).	. . .

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