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Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire. By Eliga H. Gould. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. 302. $45.00.)

There her analysis of “the intersection between alphabetic and quipu literacy and the ways in which these disparate textual forms interacted and informed each other” (p. 82) closely follows and adds little that is unique or original to the arguments of numerous scholars, with their work (including that of Mary Louise Pratt, whose pioneering study on Guaman Poma surely deserves more recognition than it receives here) being relegated to endnotes. A strange narcissism lingers in a scholarly book that lavishes four pages on personal acknowledgments while failing adequately to acknowledge the quarter century of scholarship that supports its project. Brander Rasmussen is to be credited for the passion and conviction with which she argues her case; but she is perhaps to be criticized for the boldness with which she claims that case as exclusively her own.