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Book SynopsisMany know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas flourished as an important leader of the Mohegan people in seventeenth-century Connecticut. In Uncas: First of the Mohegans, Michael Leroy...
Trade ReviewFor his nicely nuanced and minutely detailed narrative, historians of native southern New England owe much to Michael Oberg.
-- William B. Hart, Middlebury College * The Journal of American History *
Oberg has composed what is clearly the most comprehensive and strongest treatment of Uncas thus far.... The author has successfully employed the framework of ethnohistory to construct a balanced and contextualized interpretation of Uncas' life, something that has been heretofore elusive. The Uncas that emerges from Oberg's pages is neither a bronzed hero of English providence, nor a convenient straw man who can be battered in the name of white guilt over and justification for imperial conquests.
-- Akim D. Reinhardt, Towson University * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *
