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John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier (review)

John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier (review) John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier ByJ. Russell Snapp Louisiana State University Press, 1 996 238 pp. Cloth, $42.50 Reviewed by Robert M. Weir, professor of history at the University of South Carolina and the author of Colonial South Carolina: A History. J. Russell Snapp's volume joins a rapidly lengthening list of new studies of the southern frontier in the eighteenth century -- all intent on enlarging our under- standing of Native Americans, Indian-white relations, and/or the American Revolution in the region. Insofar as it shares these aims, Snapp's volume is not unique, but to my knowledge no other recent author has offered such a direct challenge to a work that has long been considered standard in the field. In 1944 John Mden'sfohn Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier: A Study ofIndian Relations, War, Trade, and Land Problems in the Southern Wilderness, iyj^--iyyj covered much of the same ground over a shorter chronological period and con- cluded that Stuart's outstanding traits as superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Southern District of North America were "fidelity and prudence." In summary, Alden observed, "his conduct of Indian affairs in the South before the American Revolution http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier (review)

Weir, Robert M.
Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (2) – Jan 4, 1998
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John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier ByJ. Russell Snapp Louisiana State University Press, 1 996 238 pp. Cloth, $42.50 Reviewed by Robert M. Weir, professor of history at the University of South Carolina and the author of Colonial South Carolina: A History. J. Russell Snapp's volume joins a rapidly lengthening list of new studies of the southern frontier in the eighteenth century -- all intent on enlarging our under- standing of Native Americans, Indian-white relations, and/or the American Revolution in the region. Insofar as it shares these aims, Snapp's volume is not unique, but to my knowledge no other recent author has offered such a direct challenge to a work that has long been considered standard in the field. In 1944 John Mden'sfohn Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier: A Study ofIndian Relations, War, Trade, and Land Problems in the Southern Wilderness, iyj^--iyyj covered much of the same ground over a shorter chronological period and con- cluded that Stuart's outstanding traits as superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Southern District of North America were "fidelity and prudence." In summary, Alden observed, "his conduct of Indian affairs in the South before the American Revolution

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