| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania. Ed. by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xxiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-271-02384-8. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-271-02385-6.)

Those seeking answers to the question of how Indian-settler relations in colonial Pennsylvania degenerated from William Penn's 1682 vision of peaceful coexistence to bloody racial violence after 1755 will find much of value in this significant new collection of essays. The editors present thirteen chapters, arranged in chronological sequence, which address issues ranging from early seventeenth-century cross-cultural interactions in New Sweden to constructions of white male identity in the early nineteenth-century American republic. Many of the contributors are junior scholars working at the cutting edge of colonial-era ethnohistory. Considered in the aggregate, this collection represents a multifaceted and provocative postmortem report on the processes by which settlers erased Native Americans from the space that became Pennsylvania.

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