Subjects unto the same king : Indians, English, and the contest for authority in colonial New England / Jenny Hale Pulsipher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pulsipher, Jenny Hale.

Series:

Early American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--New England--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Government relations--To 1789.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indians of North America--New England--History--17th century.

History.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New England.

Massachusetts--Politics and government--To 1775.

Massachusetts.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007, c2005]

Summary:

Land ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Hale Pulsipher writes in Subjects unto the Same King, a book that cogently redefines the relationships between Indians and colonists in seventeenth-century New England. Rather, the story is much more complicated - and more interesting. It is a tale of two divided cultures, but also of a host of individuals, groups, colonies, and nations, all of whom used the struggle between and within Indian and English communities to promote their own authority. Through exhaustive research, Pulsipher has written the accepted history of the Indian-English relationship in colonial New England, revealing it to be much more nuanced than previously supposed.

Contents:

Models of authority

Massachusetts under fire

Years of uncertainty

Allies fall away

The "Narragansett war"

A perilous middle ground

Massachusetts's authority undermined

A crisis of spirit

Massachusetts fights alone

Surrendering authority.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-346) and index.

ISBN:

0812219082

9780812219081

OCLC:

123500885