The Name Of War: King Philip's War And The Origins Of American Identity

Cover Art for 9780307488572, The Name Of War: King Philip's War And The Origins Of American Identity by Jill Lepore
ISBN: 9780307488572
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 23 September, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa SocietyKing 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 tow

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