| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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Book Review

The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763. By Stephen C. Hahn. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xii + 338 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95.)

Historians have long been acquainted with the broad outlines of Creek Indian history during the colonial period, with its origins in the amalgam of clan connections, its people's relatively recent arrival in the Southeast, their coalescence under the leadership of the "Emperor" Brims, and his shrewd strategy of survival by playing off the European rivals against one another. Now Stephen Hahn deftly fills in the details of the outline, giving colonial Creek history a new definition and coherence. Smoothly written and impressively researched, the book manages the difficult task of presenting history from the Indian point of view. Hahn draws upon Spanish archives to demonstrate the extent of Creek dalliance with the authorities in La Florida. Creek leaders are presented as individuals with their own names, personalities, and policies.

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