| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763. By Jane T. Merritt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. ix + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendixes, notes, index. $29.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

In this study of the Pennsylvania frontier in the eighteenth century, author Jane Merritt uses the metaphor of a crossroads to structure a narrative that begins peaceably but culminates in violence, racism, and Indian dispossession. Merritt begins her book with William Penn's founding of Pennsylvania and the first wave of European settlers to the region. They met Indians at the crossroads, a place full of possibility and open to trust, a place where goods, cultures, and family members freely commingled. Kinship, literally through intermarriage and metaphorically in the language of diplomacy, brought diverse people together at the crossroads, where they negotiated their self-interest and accommodated their cultural differences by finding common ground.

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