Book Review: Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America by Daniel Richter

Abstract

In Trade, Land, Power, distinguished colonial historian Daniel Richter brings together eleven essays focused on the relationship between native peoples and European colonists in the mid-Atlantic region. Most have been published previously, but Richter argues that combining the essays into a single volume allows readers to better grasp the complexity of several interconnected themes at work in colonial-era cross-cultural encounters: trade, land, and power. While Richter acknowledges that we may never fully understand the intricacies of native-European interactions, he “is more convinced than ever that we need to probe those mysteries, to trace the roles of trade, land, and power in the conquest of North America."

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