{"product_id":"time-of-anarchy-9780674976177","title":"Time of Anarchy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to Carolina. Behind the upheaval was the Susquehannock Indians. Their shrewd responses to settler violence altered the future course of life and government for colonists and Indigenous peoples from the Great Lakes to the Deep South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn eye-opening account of an obscure chapter in colonial American history. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e is a fine work of historical scholarship. Outstanding research and evocative writing bring this important history to life. -- Gregory D. Smithers * North Carolina Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable…Kruer brings a rare sense of historical empathy to all actors without minimizing the horrid levels of indiscriminate destruction and loss experienced by all. Combining nuances and engaging style, this book will remain a reference for years to come. -- Céline Carayon * Virginia Magazine of History \u0026amp; Biography *\u003cbr\u003eIn his well-organized story on Indigenous power, Kruer solidly argues for the strength and persistence of the Susquehannock with captivating precision and careful detail to source-driven narratives…brings a new perspective to the colonial crises of the late seventeenth century. -- Tyler Daniels * H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eKruer tells the fascinating and necessary narrative of the Susquehannock people at the end of the seventeenth century. His work and its underlying archive in this regard will be of great importance and interest. -- Caroline Wigginton * Native American and Indigenous Studies *\u003cbr\u003eFlowing with insights and executed with skill, \u003ci\u003eTime of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e rearranges conventional understandings of seventeenth-century Anglo–Indian relations. Examining the fateful ‘revolution’ in Anglo–Indian affairs during the 1670s, it upends paradigms of Indigenous victimization, uncovers surprising degrees of Susquehannock power, and challenges normative assumptions about racial formation in the Chesapeake. A remarkable work of recovery, \u003ci\u003eTime of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e compels a major re-periodization of early American history, one in which the currents of race, power, and colonialism follow much less familiar and determined paths. -- Ned Blackhawk, author of \u003ci\u003eViolence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant book on the Susquehannock Indians and their creative and bold maneuvering among North America’s colonial powers. But the book is also an incisive account of colonial tactics and expansion, making it quite extraordinary: we have rarely seen such measured balance in writing early American history. The book is filled with insights and historiographical interventions, but Matthew Kruer introduces them to us surreptitiously with elegant and compelling prose. -- Pekka Hämäläinen, author of \u003ci\u003eLakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMixing exquisite historical detail with brilliant analysis, Matthew Kruer remaps colonial North America, locating a small Native nation—the Susquehannocks—at the very center of a continental world of imperial conflict. \u003ci\u003eTime of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e makes a bold and provocative intervention into early American history. Our understanding of Indigenous power will never be the same. -- Philip J. Deloria, author of \u003ci\u003eIndians in Unexpected Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a blood-soaked time of war and chaos in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake, the Susquehannocks emerged as a powerful nation. Matthew Kruer tells their compelling story with grace and insight, managing to make new a history often considered well-worn. Here was a ‘time of anarchy’ that unleashed astonishing and novel orders, both indigenous and colonial. This era will never look the same again. -- Sarah Pearsall, author of \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these pages we see the hand of a careful ethnohistorian, a thoughtful political theorist, an archival political historian, a theoretically-sophisticated scholar of affect, and an engaging stylist. \u003ci\u003eTime of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e has the narrative feel of masterful old history but carries the theoretical heft of contemporary scholarship. -- Gregory E. Dowd, author of \u003ci\u003eA Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e will have a significant impact on our understanding of early American and Native American history. Kruer’s fusion of the histories of emotion and of gender helps to resolve some truly mysterious features of this critical period, and his compelling analysis of the power of threatened masculinity and conspiracy theories make this very much a book for our own time. -- James Rice, author of \u003ci\u003eTales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403622293847,"sku":"9780674976177","price":31.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/time-of-anarchy-9780674976177","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}