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008			140610s1998 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aE83.67 _b.L46 1998
082	0	0	_a973.2 LEP
100	1		_aLepore, Jill
245	1	4	_aThe name of war _b: King Philip's War and the origins of American identity _c/ Jill Lepore
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 1998
300			_a337 p. _b: illus. _c; 21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-326) and index
520			_aThe 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. 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.
586			_aWinner of the Bancroft Prize
650		0	_aKing Philip's War, 1675 - 1676
650		0	_aIndians of North America _x--wars _y--1600-1750
651		0	_aGreat Britain _x--Colonies _z--America
651		0	_aUnited States _x--Politics and government _y--to 1775
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