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Abstract
JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC (Summer 2012) bilities for the latter's incursion into Florida during the First Seminole War. In response to Calhoun's petty and lengthy diatribes, Jackson consistently endeavored to put the dispute behind them and to heal a relationship broken by the Eaton affair. Their conversations, and many others in these volumes, demonstrate that by this point in his life Jackson was perhaps more reflective, more calculating, more magnanimous, and, indeed, somewhat sadder than perhaps his adversaries imagined. Ti m Ala n Ga rri son is a professor of history at Portland State University. He is the author of The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern State Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations (Athens, GA, 2009) and the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law (Washington, DC, 2008). The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders and American Expansion. By Jay Gitlin. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 269. $40.00.) Reviewed by Justin Carroll In the introduction of The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders and American Expansion, historian Jay Gitlin writes that ``It was the misfortune of the French to have their story told by one of the
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Journal of the Early Republic – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 5, 2012