The Name of War

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Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society 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 and outrages on both sides were too horrific to deserve the name of a war It all began when Philip called Metacom by his own people , the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in the colony of Plymouth The war spread quickly, pitting a loose confederation of southeastern Algonquians against a coalition of English colonists While it raged, colonial armies pursued enemy Indians through the swamps and woods of New England, and Indians attacked English farms and towns from Narragansett Bay to the Connecticut River Valley Both sides, in fact, had pursued the war seemingly without restraint, killing women and children, torturing captives, and mutilating the dead The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676.The war s brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war and because of it that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones King Philip s War became one of the most written about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indians and Anglos She shows how, as late as the nineteenth century, memories of the war were instrumental in justifying Indian removals and how in our own century that same war has inspired Indian attempts to preserve Indianness as fiercely as the early settlers once struggled to preserve their Englishness.Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves From the Hardcover edition. Download The Name of War Author Jill Lepore – kino-fada.fr Truly fantastic Lepore has mastered the art of history telling she tells the story as straight as it can be told from the historical record, and makes incisive connections to other historical events, eras, and emotional epochs If history had been old like this when I was in school, many fewer kids would have hated it Also, many fewer kids would have turned into unthinking, racist, Merica First assholes Nuance and empathy are important parts of understanding what has happened before so tha Truly fantastic Lepore has mastered the art of history telling she tells the story as straight as it can be told from the historical record, and makes inci...The colonists MUST have FELT, as the Indians flaming arrows PENETRATED the SKINS of the white MAN S houses, that they THEMSELVES WERE BEING PENETRATED by the DARK OTHERS whose own violence was now being WRITTEN ON the BODY as well as the LANDSCAPE in bold strokes If you like speculation and taking flimsy evidence and using it to put words in the mouths of historical actors, then you ll dig this book Postmodern, literary techniques work sometimes to tell the stories of persons who cannot spea The colonists MUST have FELT, as the Indians flaming arrows PENETRATED the SKINS of the white MAN S houses, that they THEMSELVES WERE BEING PENETRATED by the DARK OTHERS whose own violence was now being WRITTEN ON the BODY as well as the LANDSCAPE in bold strokes If you like speculation and taking flimsy evidence and using it to put words in the mouths...Thorough and intellectually ambitious This isn t really a history of King Philip s War 1675 6 if you re looking for a narrative of the conflict you ll be disappointed It is rather a study of the way that the experience and memory of the war was constructed by the English colonists of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island, and Connecticut during the war years and immediately following, how that construction contributed to the construction of early American identity, and how it was actively u Thorough and intellectually ambitious This isn t really a history of King Philip s War 1675 6 if you re looking for a narrative of the conflict you ll be disappointed It is rather a study of the way that the experience and memory of the war was constructed by the English colonists of Massachusetts, Plymouth,...Lepore s work here disappointed She has obviously done substantial research, I just do not find her theoretical framework all that satisfying Maybe I do not fancy books about the worst fatal war in American history that analyze language and memory and lack much human sympathy A wo... The Name of War is a thematically structured meditation on the violent and significant conflict known as King Philip s War, fought between English colonists and Native Americans in 1675 6 The fighting occurred primarily in New England between, on the one hand, English colonists of the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies, the Mohegan and Pequot tribes along with so called praying Indians who had converted to Christianity, and on the other hand, the Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Abenaki and The Name of War is a thematically structured meditation on the violent and significant conflict known as King Philip s War, fought between English colonists and Native Americans in 1675 6 The fighting occurred primarily in New England between, on the one hand, English colonists of the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies, the Mohegan and Pequot tribes along with so called praying Indians who had converted to Christianity, and on the other hand, the Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Abenaki and Pocumtuck tribes King Philip s War produced a considerable number of English writ...In my last post I described how a short while ago, I decided to do a straight reading up on the history of my country Not by a series of biographies or of any particular event but a simple march through the ages exploring all the eras of the United States of America The first challenge is to find books that try their best to explore from multiple perspectives avoiding just one narrow view, without at the same time surrendering a general narrative that is both readable and enjoyable The secon In my last post I described how a short while ago, I decided to do a straight reading up on the history of my country Not by a series of biographies or of any particular event but a simple march through the ages exploring all the eras of the United States of America The first challenge is to find books that try their best to explore from multiple perspectives avoiding just one narrow view, without at the same time surrendering a general narrative that is both readable and enjoyable The second challenge is determining where to start I suppose I could start at the American Revolution or all the way back to Mesopotamia I fi...Jill Lepore s 1998 work The Name of War explores one of the flash points where violence blazed up in the late 17th century the uprising known alternately as King Philips War and Metacom s Rebellion A meditation on war, and the way the colonists chose to portray it in words in order to understand its meaning and justify their actions, Lepore s fundamental concern is to understand the issues of identity which were in her view both the war s cause and lasting effect The collapse of the politica Jil...In the Name of War is a revisionist interpretation of King Philips War This is not a history of the war and provides an example of how the colonists at the time interpreted various aspects of the war From seizing of colonists to selling Indians into slavery the effects of the war were traced throughout the war period The brutality of the war is captured through the narrative that she lays out but in the end you really have to be interested in the time period to get something out of it Like m In the Name of War is a revisionist interpretation of King Philips War This is not a history of the war and provides an example of how the colonists at the time interpreted various aspects of the war From seizing of colonists to selling Indians into slavery the effects of the war were traced throughout the war period The brutality of the war is captured through the narrative that she lays out but in the end you really have to be interested in the time period to get something out of ...I started reading this book after I found out that one of my ancestors was killed in King Philip s War at the Battle of the Great Swamp, December 1675 The first two thirds of the book was OK how did the war start what was each side s greivance But the last third was awful.When we read about history past, how can we know how much of what we read is true Much of history is written based on what someone wrote down Therefore, much of history could be said to be biased Between the years of 1675 and 1682, there were twenty one separate, printed, accounts of King Philip s War which took place in southern New England, the majority published in London King Philip, an Algonquian Indian whose real name was Metacom, was killed in August 1676 alth...

The Name of War
  • English
  • 10 October 2017
  • Paperback
  • 368 pages
  • 0375702628
  • Jill Lepore
  • The Name of War