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| Genre/Form: | Personal narratives History |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | James Printer; Mary White Rowlandson; Weetamoo.; James Printer; Mary White Rowlandson; Weetamoo.; James Printer; Mary White Rowlandson |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lisa Tanya Brooks |
| ISBN: | 9780300196733 0300196733 9780300244328 0300244320 |
| OCLC Number: | 982565966 |
| Description: | xv, 431 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Prologue: Caskoak, the place of peace -- Part I. The education of Weetamoo and James Printer: exchange, diplomacy, dispossession -- Namumpum, "our beloved kinswoman," Saunkskwa of Pocasset: bonds, acts, deeds -- The Harvard Indian College scholars and the Algonquian origins of American literature -- Interlude: Nashaway: Nipmuc country, 1643-1674 -- Part II. No single origin story: multiple views on the emergence of war -- The Queen's right and the Quaker's relation -- Here comes the storm -- The printer's revolt: a narrative of the captivity of James the Printer -- Part III. Colonial containment and networks of kinship: expanding the map of captivity, resistance, and alliance -- The roads leading North: September 1675-January 1676 -- Interlude: "My children are here and I will stay": Menimesit, January 1676 -- The captive's lament: reinterpreting Rowlandson's narrative -- Part IV. The place of peace and the ends of war -- Unbinding the ends of war -- The Northern front: beyond replacement narratives. |
| Series Title: | Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity. |
| Responsibility: | Lisa Brooks. |
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"By making what we thought was a small story very large indeed-Ms. Brooks really does give us 'A New History of King Philip's War.'"-The Wall Street JournalWinner of one of the 2019 Bancroft Prizes in American History and Diplomacy, sponsored by Columbia University Winner of the 2019 New England Society in the City of New York Book Awards, Historical Nonfiction category Listed as one of the "must read " titles in the 19th annual non-fiction category for the Mass Center for the Book Awards.Winner of the 2019 John C. Ewers Book Award for best book on North American Indian Ethnohistory, sponsored by the Western History AssociationWinner of the 2019 Donald L. Fixico Award for best book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations History, sponsored by the Western History Association "Brilliant, meticulously researched, a scholarly tour de force, I could not put Our Beloved Kin down!"-LeAnne Howe, Choctaw, author of Shell Shaker"Our Beloved Kin is a major intellectual feat. With brilliant narration and storytelling, Brooks engages in a critical remapping that centers Indigenous sovereignty and kinship with conceptual rigor, methodological innovation, and important historical interventions"-J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity"In this mesmerizing and methodologically bold reassessment of King Philip's War, Lisa Brooks brings to life the gendered resistance to colonialism in Indigenous place-worlds through the language and landscape of kinship."-Jean M. O'Brien, author of Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England"There have been many books about King Philip's War but none like this. Our Beloved Kin is insightful and a better way to understand New England's past."-Colin G. Calloway, author of The Indian World of George Washington"Lisa Brooks brilliantly guides us through the "place-worlds" of Weetamoo and James Printer to create a stunningly original account of King Philip's War. The Native viewpoint changes everything we thought we knew."-Mary Beth Norton, author of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 Read more...
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- Printer, James.
- Rowlandson, Mary White, -- approximately 1635-1711.
- King Philip's War, 1675-1676.
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1600-1750.
- Indian captivities.
- New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Weetamoo.
- HISTORY -- Native American.
- HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- Rowlandson, Mary White,
- HISTORY -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) -- United States.
- HISTORY -- State & Local -- United States.
- Native Americans -- Wars.
- Native Americans -- Captivities.
- Indians of North America -- Wars.
- New England.
- New England -- History.
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