The Name of War: King Phillip’s War and the Origins of American Identity

Description

Jill Lepore’s award-winning study of this seventeenth-century conflict between the English colonists and the native Algonquins of Southern New England is a fascinating look at the bloodiest war in American history. Lasting from June of 1675 to April of 1678, the war resulted in the deaths of thousands of native and English men, women, and children, and the destruction of more than half of New England’s towns. “…the Puritans found themselves fighting with a cruelty they had thought only the natives capable of,” according to the book’s summary, and “the settlers’ sense of themselves as civilized people of God had been deeply shaken.” (paperback, 1998)

Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

“An evocative, powerful, and troubling book about a little-known war that speaks to all wars.” – The New Republic

“Brilliant … This is history as it should be written.” – The Boston Globe

“Fascinating … rich in imagination, in moral ruminations about the meaning and justice of war.” – The New York Review of Books

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