Book Reviews 539Coast mythology has been subjected by nonnative anthropologists, one wishes she had, at least, acknowledged the relatively recent nature of this genre of approved collective versions synthesized by tribal cultural committees-versions that often sacrifice competing claims of clan or subtribe for purposes of presenting a united tribal front. And second, she might have challenged the tribe's disdain for Claude Lévi-Strauss by noting that he remains one of the few scholars to champion these very consolidations in print by Indians themselves of their myths, legends, and highly vernacular, geographically specific histories (1979: 40).

English overseas colonialism is generally traced to the anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish ideologies of Richard Hakluyt, Humphrey Gilbert, and other exponents in the 1570s and 1580s. This article puts Florida at the forefront of English colonialism by taking seriously Thomas Stukeley's proposed colonisation expedition in 1563. The focus on the 1560s reveals how a dynastic rivalry with France, rather than a religious rivalry with Spain, gave birth to England's first colonial impulse. Jean Ribault, well known as the founder of French Florida, serves as the connecting link between Florida and England. His previously unappreciated role in European diplomacy unwittingly turned his fledgling colony into a pawn to be traded among France, Spain, and England. Furthermore, Queen Elizabeth's interest in joining the race for colonies may have been fuelled more by her desire to regain Calais from the French than to plant settlers in America. But while her motives may well have been cynical, the English public for the first time began to see itself as a colonising people. The end result was that Florida not only emerged as part of the fountainhead of English colonialism, but also came to play an important role in European politics.

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