{"product_id":"uncas-9780801472947","title":"Uncas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor his nicely nuanced and minutely detailed narrative, historians of native southern New England owe much to Michael Oberg.\u003c\/p\u003e -- William B. Hart, Middlebury College * The Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOberg 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.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Akim D. Reinhardt, Towson University * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405146005847,"sku":"9780801472947","price":17.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801472947.jpg?v=1730488875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/uncas-9780801472947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}