| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Nancy Shoemaker. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x, 211 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-516792-9.)

In this wide-ranging, thoughtful, and compelling work, Nancy Shoemaker explores similarities between European and Native American cultures in eighteenth-century North America. Paradoxically, she contends, these similarities made it possible for each group to "construct new identities that exaggerated the contrasts between them" (p. 3). She explores six broad topics—land, kings, writing, alliances, gender, and race—and considers the ways in which Europeans and Indians made sense of each, both on their own terms and in relation to each other. The result is a compact exploration of European-Indian relations at the high point of European imperial rivalry and enterprise in North America.

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