| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776. By Alden T. Vaughan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxvi, 337 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86594-4.)

The story of Native American travelers to Britain during the colonial era has typically been told as a series of discrete and unconnected encounters. The transatlantic trips of Pocahontas and the three Mohawks and one Mahican known collectively as the "four Indian kings" have received the most attention, but they are only two examples of a phenomenon that stretched out over two-and-a-half centuries and involved approximately 175 Indians. Carolyn Thomas Foreman collected many of those stories in Indians Abroad, 1493–1938 (1943), a compendium still widely cited today but lacking in analytical depth. Alden T. Vaughan supercedes Foreman's work in this new book, providing not only a more comprehensive accounting of Indian travelers to Britain before the American Revolution but also an interpretive framework for understanding their experiences in the wider context of transatlantic encounter and colonization.

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