Our beloved kin : a new history of King Philip's War
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
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Book
ISBN
9780300196733, 0300196733, 9780300244328, 0300244320
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Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 431 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9780300196733, 0300196733, 9780300244328, 0300244320

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-424) and index.
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"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.
Awards
Massachusetts Book Awards Must-Read Book, 2019

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