Paulina L. Alberto is assistant professor of history, Spanish, and Portuguese at the University of Michigan.Francis Jennings (1918-2000) was director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the American Indian at Chicago's Newberry Library. His many other books includeEmpire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in AmericaandThe Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire.