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• catalog abstract "Publisher description: 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, and mutilating the dead. The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676. The 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. She 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. Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.".
• catalog contributor b10594390.
• catalog coverage "Great Britain Colonies America.".
• catalog coverage "United States Politics and government To 1775.".
• catalog created "1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-326) and index.".
• catalog description "Publisher description: 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, and mutilating the dead. ".
• catalog description "Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.".
• catalog description "The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676. The 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. She 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. ".
• catalog description "What's in a name? -- A brief chronology of King Philip's War -- Prologue: The circle -- pt. 1. Language. Beware of any linguist ; The story of it printed -- pt. 2. War. Habitations of cruelty ; Where is your O God? -- pt. 3. Bondage. Come go along with us ; A dangerous merchandise -- pt. 4. Memory. The blasphemous leviathan ; The curse of Metamora -- Epilogue: The rock.".
• catalog extent "xxviii, 337 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Name of war.".
• catalog identifier "0679446869 (hc)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Name of war.".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Knopf,".
• catalog relation "Name of war.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain Colonies America.".
• catalog spatial "United States Politics and government To 1775.".
• catalog subject "973.2/4 21".
• catalog subject "E83.67 .L46 1998".
• catalog subject "Indians of North America Wars 1600-1750.".
• catalog subject "King Philip's War, 1675-1676.".
• catalog tableOfContents "What's in a name? -- A brief chronology of King Philip's War -- Prologue: The circle -- pt. 1. Language. Beware of any linguist ; The story of it printed -- pt. 2. War. Habitations of cruelty ; Where is your O God? -- pt. 3. Bondage. Come go along with us ; A dangerous merchandise -- pt. 4. Memory. The blasphemous leviathan ; The curse of Metamora -- Epilogue: The rock.".
• catalog title "The name of war : King Philip's War and the origins of American identity / Jill Lepore.".
• catalog type "text".