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Article: Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751.(Book review)
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- September 1, 2006
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Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751. By Neil Kamil. Early America: History, Context, Culture. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xxv + 1060 pp. $75.00 cloth.
Fortress of the Soul is as hefty as it is sprawling. With 1100 pages printed on oversize glossy paper to accommodate 922 pages of text plus introduction, notes, and 186 illustrations and maps, it tops out at five pounds on my bathroom scale.
A sixteen-year revision of a far smaller 1989 John Hopkins University dissertation, Fortress of the Soul sweeps across the Atlantic and two hundred years of French ...