Customer Review: In 1675, the Wampanoag and Nipmuck people, led by a sachem identified as King Philip, went to war against the encroaching settlements of the English in Massachusetts and Connecticut. The war, which lasted just a year, was the bloodiest and most destructive, per capita of the populations on both... more info
Customer Review: I didn't read this book until I'd finished Prof. Drake's classes, but just like his class lectures, this book is great! I have rarely read a more "readable" war-related book. There are a number of references he made in his classes and credited them to some "source" or "author" on the subject, and I... more info
Customer Review: This has to be one of the most enjoyable and challenging history books I've read in many years. Extremely well documented, broad in scope, relevant to contemporary political theory, I hope this gets wide reading.
On the surface, the book seeks to elevate King Phillip's War and Bacon's Revolution... more info
Customer Review: I have been interested in this war for a long while. This book is detailed and needs time to absorbe. The area encompassed is much larger than I had ever imagined and the number of tribes many more than I knew. It is quiite interesting.
Customer Review: This series focuses in on the native americans slaughtered by the pilgrims, focusing in on the New England area. I was appaled they were trying to sell most of this stuff as modern. For me, I guess I inherited it and it gets me by bored daily. This is the occult aspect of the ethnic pilgrim.
Customer Review: Here's an interesting fact regarding a major conflict on American soil that probably few Americans have ever heard of, King Philips War (1675-76): in terms of proportion to population, more casualties were inflicted on the people during King Philip's War than any other war in US history. It was the... more info
Customer Review: Quite a bit of useful data on colonial New England.
However, where is mention of the Jordan Plantation
of Spurwink and Scarborough Maine, that was destroyed in the King Philip's War 1675-1678? It was founded by Rev Robert Jordan,
minister of Spurwink, Casco, and Saco, Maine, and... more info
Customer Review: Impeccably researched, Ms. Weddle's book illuminates the unstudied area of the practice of pacifism, as it was in England, then on board ships to the New World but mostly as the Quaker leaders began to govern the colonies in 17th New England. The Quaker leaders had a huge dilemma as pacifists: on... more info
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