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

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

Jill Lepore

368 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres a...

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