| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517–1751. By Neil Kamil. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xxvi, 1,058 pp. $75.00, ISBN 0-8018-7390-8.)

Neil Kamil evokes two centuries of a Protestant international philosophical milieu. His stated intention is "to engage historians of science as well as historians of religion, technology, art and artisanry, sexuality (and the body), agriculture, human geography, textual criticism, the book, ecology, and, I hope most of all, the colonization of pluralistic New World societies" (pp. xix–xx). Pursuing these goals in over 900 pages of text and almost 1,700 notes, Kamil has authored a beautifully produced work, boasting 186 figures. This lavish volume presents a wide-ranging and complex reading of its rather amorphous subject.

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