| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Nancy Shoemaker. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 211 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Nancy Shoemaker argues in this provocative book that not only did eighteenth-century Indians and Europeans have different cultures that resulted in mutual misunderstanding and conflict, but they "also had cultures in common" (p. 3). Shoemaker insists that scholars have under-estimated the variety of ways in which Indians and Europeans viewed the world alike. Only by understanding this aspect of intercultural contact, she argues, can we fully explain how both peoples constructed new identities in the eighteenth century "that exaggerated the contrasts between them while ignoring what they had in common" (p. 3). Shoemaker investigates six arenas where cultural similarities between Indians and Europeans seem profound: land use, political leadership, writing and record-keeping, diplomacy, gender roles, and views about race.

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