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The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies. By David La Vere. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. [x], 262. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-1090-0.)
The early Carolinas, once an underdeveloped field in colonial American history, have recently received more attention, particularly in the area of European and Indian relations. With the recent tercentenary of North Carolina's Tuscarora War (1711-1713), David La Vere's book comes as a timely study of some of the central issues, conflicts, and personalities that helped reshape southeastern North America in the early eighteenth century.
La Vere stands out in his use of biography as an organizational device for his narrative and analysis of the Tuscarora War. After establishing early North Carolina as a hardscrabble place that "brought out the meanness in men, European and Indian alike," La Vere...