The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Lepore, Jill

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER - King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indigenous peoples--that erupted in New...
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Lepore, Jill

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

$20.00

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

$20.00
Author: Jill Lepore
Format: Paperback
Language: English
BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER - King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indigenous peoples--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."

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 Indigenous peoples 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.

Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/27/1999
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.23w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780375702624


Award: Lukas Prize Project - Nominee

About the Author

JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include the New York Times best seller The Secret History of Wonder Woman and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


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