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Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America. By Michael A. McDonnell. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2015. X + 403 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $28.00, CAN$32.50, cloth). Historian Michael McDonnell is perhaps best known for his impressive work on the America Revolution, but in his new book, Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America , he steps into a field that has blossomed since the publication of Richard White’s seminal The Middle Ground over two decades ago. McDonnell’s entry into this historiography is a welcome one that revises how we envision early American history. Masters of Empire focuses on the Native peoples (the Anishinaabeg) of the western Great Lakes, particularly upon the Odawa … bjarvis{at}svsu.edu
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