| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island. By Faren R. Siminoff. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. x, 213 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8147-9832-2.)
Crossing the Sound is a microhistory of the interaction of various Europeans and Native Americans on the eastern end of Long Island. Located in a newer social history that historicizes and contextualizes the players, the study explores the creation of what Faren R. Siminoff calls communities of interest. In the negotiations that took place among and between whites and Indians, she isolates who needed what and how they tried to get it.	1
Part 1 looks at natives and settlers from 1600 to 1640, beginning with a detailed ethnohistory of the natives living in southern New England and eastern Long Island. The mainland Pequots were clearly the political center for the eastern Long Island groups, who paid them tribute and used them as middlemen, especially with Europeans. Pequot control of the wampum trade—the shell beads used as currency—placed them in this not altogether enviable position. The Pequot war of 1636 destroyed the Pequots as well as their skein of obligations and responsibilities. Their fate was also a lesson to other native groups, who were now forced to deal with Europeans.	. . .

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