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Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana: Trade in the French Atlantic World by Erin M. Greenwald (review)

struction of fortifications around the city of Charleston, and the emergence of civic venues such as markets and theaters. The penultimate section juxtaposes townhouses, bastions of “gracious living,” such as the Miles Brewton House with the work yards and commercial core on which they depended (p. 145). The final section surveys nineteenth-century changes wrought by fires, hurricanes, an earthquake, the Civil War, and postbellum socioeconomic conditions. The monograph’s major conclusions include the dominance of beef rather than pork in the diets of most Charlestonians regardless of differences in status or era and the multifunctional nature of virtually all sites—colonial Charleston was “a community of farmsteads on urban lots,” and residents kept and slaughtered livestock behind houses great and small into the early twentieth century (p. 110). Likewise, even seemingly specialized structures such as the Powder Magazine contained extensive domestic components. Other themes that appear throughout the book are the mixing of Native American, African, and European people and cultures; the divergence between “social distance” and “physical distance,” as rich, poor, enslaved, and free individuals lived in close proximity; and the evolution of the landscape, as influenced by residents’ efforts to make land by filling in swampy areas and to address the persistent challenges of managing refuse (p. 6). One of Charleston’s strengths is its tacking between broad trends and specific information about species and sites. Examples of such specificity include the discovery of a floor paved with cow phalanges and a nineteenthcentury recipe for bobolink: “Hold the bill of the bird in one hand and crush your teeth through the back of the head, and thank Providence that you are permitted to live” (p. 223). As these examples suggest, Zierden and Reitz regularly use written sources to complement archaeological finds. They note that archaeology “augments, expands, and amends” information from other sources, and they are candid about the discipline’s strengths and limitations (p. 24). The authors succeed admirably in marshaling an immense body of research, conducted by themselves and many others over the course of decades, into an accessible and fascinating book.