Reviews 85 that family ties could be a “potent counteragent to empire” and enable his subsequent rise to prominence in the British realm (93). Moreover, Rindfeisch analyzes the documentary record for mo- ments when the people attached to Galphin challenged his authority and undermined his attempt to style himself a “benevolent patriarch” (71). Creeks, laborers, and slaves all forced Galphin into a fuid nexus of “interdependency” (72). Since he lacked privilege, wealth, and access as a young man, he fostered dependencies with peoples of Native, African, and European descent in the Native South where he climbed the socio- economic ladder and garnered respect from gentlemanly merchants and imperial agents. Countless laborers, tenants, and Indians owed him sizeable debts that enforced his power over them; nor did he hesitate to use violence over slaves, especially enslaved women who bore him sev- eral children. On the other hand, these subaltern peoples extracted con- cessions from the patriarch. To ensure smooth day-to-day operations, he built a church for his slaves, freed his enslaved métis children, bought land for his Coweta children, forgave debts, and funded infrastructure for relatives at Queensborough. Consequently, as Rindfeisch reminds his readers, empire was a contested, negotiated, and “personal” process in the Native South (192). As the inaugural book for the “Indians and Southern History” series, George Galphin’s Intimate Empire is a masterful piece of scholarship. Rindfeisch conducts a microhistory of an underappreciated Southerner to shed new light on colonialism and kinship in the Native South and, more broadly, the early modern Atlantic world. Further, he complements the community and spatial turns in the Native South scholarship with a clear focus on time, place, and evidence. Tis book would work well in upper-division and graduate courses on early America, American Indians, and historical methods. Jo-Ann Archibald, Jenny Lee-Morgan, and Jason De Santolo, eds. Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology. London: Zed Books, 2019. Paper, £18.99. Laura Phillips, Queen’s University, Ka’tarohkwi / Kingston Tis collection of essays by mostly Indigenous researchers from Na- tions within territories now typically referred to by colonial geopolitical