Description
Book SynopsisThis book takes a new approach by synthesizing the work of scholars of military and Indigenous history to provide the first chronologically ordered, region-wide, and long-term narrative history of conflict in the Early American Northeast.
War and Colonization in the Early American Northeast focuses on war and society, European colonization, and Indigenous peoples in New England from the pre-Columbian era to the mid-eighteenth century. It examines how the New English used warfare against Native Americans as a way to implement a colonial order. These conflicts shaped New English attitudes toward Native Americans, which further aided in the marginalization and the violent targeting of these communities. At the same time, this volume pays attention to the experiences of Indigenous peoples. It explores pre-Columbian Native American conflict and studies how colonization altered the ways of warfare of Indigenous people. Native Americans contested New English efforts at
Table of Contents
1. War before New England: Conflict and Society in Dawnland 2. "It is too furious, it slays too many:" English Colonization and Conflict in Southern New England through King Philip’s War 3. "For every Scalp. . . as Evidence of their Being Killed:" Wars and the Colonization of Northern New England
