Research Catalog

Title

Our beloved kin : a new history of King Philip's war / Lisa Brooks.

Author

Brooks, Lisa Tanya

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xv, 431 pages : maps; 25 cm

Summary

"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.

Series Statement

Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity

Uniform Title

Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.

Subjects

• New England
• Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711
• Indian captivities
• Personal narratives
• History
• 1600-1775
• New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Printer, James
• King Philip's War, 1675-1676
• Indians of North America > Wars > 1600-1750
• King Philip's War (1675-1676)

Genre/Form

• Personal narratives.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-424) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-2019

ISBN

• 0300196733
• 9780300196733

LCCN

2017947666

OCLC

982565966

Author

Brooks, Lisa Tanya, author.

Title

Our beloved kin : a new history of King Philip's war / Lisa Brooks.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity

Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-424) and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1775

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2019