| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763. By Jane T. Merritt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii, 338 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2789-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5462-X.)

In At the Crossroads, Jane T. Merritt provides a refreshing, culturally sensitive, and complex alternative to traditional depictions of the frontier that is simultaneously more sophisticated and more personal. Merritt's frontier is shifting and porous—a crossroads where colonial roads and Indian paths "both literally and figuratively passed through and between communities, connecting their lives and histories" (p. 3). Rather than assume the existence of a polarized "Indian" versus "white" frontier, Merritt convincingly explains how it became that way by the mid-eighteenth century.

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