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Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600–1830 by Jonathan Eacott (review)

American and Indian residents in communities such as Kaskaskia. Unfortunately, no real analysis follows on how this affected the community as a whole. In addition, though slaves constituted 42 percent of the Illinois community, there is no formal discussion of how they fit into the collaborative community Morrissey describes. This volume will appeal to a wide variety of scholars. Ethnohistorians will recognize how Morrissey has used the work of earlier scholars, and not just in the Ohio and Illinois Valleys. His analysis of fictive kinship’s transformation over time, for example, offers promise for future scholars in other settings. Scholars of gender will appreciate Morrissey’s analysis of how bison hunting altered both workloads and marriage patterns among the Illinoisans. Chapter 3 of this book is a wonderful examination of how religious conversions intersected gender workloads among Illinoisan women. Colonial scholars will enjoy chapter 8, which combines the French tradition of mémoire, petition, requête, and remonstrance with the British notion of civil government. In other words, there is something in this book for everyone. In the end, Empire by Collaboration accomplishes what it set out to do. The reader is left with a more complete picture of a unique borderland region, one that challenges traditional narratives of both the French and English colonial stories. The agreements Indians and colonists produced to live alongside each other for the century under study suggest that the borderlands were, in many ways, more important to the success or failure of one’s empire than any policy decision made in Versailles or Whitehall.