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100 1 $aLepore, Jill,$d1966-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97022622
245 14 $aThe name of war :$bKing Philip's War and the origins of American identity /$cJill Lepore.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c1998.
263 $a9802
300 $axxviii, 337 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aKing 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.".
520 8 $aIt 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.
520 8 $aBoth sides, in fact, had pursued the war seemingly without restraint, killing women and children, torturing captives, and mutilating the dead. The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676.
520 8 $aThe war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war - and because of it - that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indians and Anglos.
520 8 $aShe shows how, as late as the nineteenth century, memories of the war were instrumental in justifying Indian removals - and how in our own century that same war has inspired Indian attempts to preserve "Indianness" as fiercely as the early settlers once struggled to preserve their Englishness.
650 0 $aKing Philip's War, 1675-1676.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072401
650 0 $aIndians of North America$xWars$y1600-1750.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065405
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056660
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$yTo 1775.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140411
852 00 $bglx$hE87.876.L46$i1998
852 00 $bbar$hE87.876$i.L46 1998