**An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle --a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.** Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is
The name of war: King Philip's War and the origins of American identity
โ Scribed by Jill Lepore
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 1998;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 954 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."
It all began when Philip (called Metacom by his own people), the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in the colony of Plymouth. The war spread quickly, pitting a loose confederation of southeastern Algonquians against a coalition of English colonists. While it raged, colonial armies pursued enemy Indians through the swamps and woods of New England, and Indians attacked English farms and towns from Narragansett Bay to the Connecticut River Valley. Both sides, in fact, had pursued the war seemingly without restraint, killing women and children, torturing captives,...
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