This is a most important book... on the history of contacts between American Indians and the colonial powers.... It is a piece of ethnohistorical research and writing of the best sort.
(American Anthropologist) This is an important contribution to our knowledge of seventeenth-century New York, both in terms of its Dutch and English settlers and of its Algonquian and Iroquian Indian inhabitants, written with care and precision.
(New England Quarterly) The method followed by the book is striking as it peels layer by layer the confused archive of events and episodes. It is therefore an excellent instantiation of micro-history as a method; it uses an event and its excavation to address issues of kinship, language practice, and judicial protocols resorted to by local Indian intermediaries and Europeans and their implications for the expression of sovereignty and its limits.
(H-NET Reviews) Her book marks an important new direction in the historiography of the early modern French empire. Agmon's work not only presses scholars to examine the French Indian Ocean, but specifically the complex political and commercial environments of France's so-called comptoirs... A Colonial Affair raises as many exciting new questions as it answers.
(Journal of Early Modern History)
