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--New England--History--17th century.

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

New England.

Massachusetts--Politics and government--To 1775.

Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleLand ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Pulsipher writes in Subjects unto the Same King, a book that cogently redefines the relationship between Indians and colonists in seventeenth-century New England. Rather, the story is much more complicated-and much 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. As power within New England shifted, Indians appealed outside the region-to other Indian nations, competing European colonies, and the English crown itself-for aid in resisting the overbearing authority of such rapidly expanding societies as the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thus Indians were at the center-and not always on the losing end-of a contest for authority that spanned the Atlantic world. Beginning soon after the English settled in Plymouth, the power struggle would eventually spawn a devastating conflict-King Philip's War-and draw the intervention of the crown, resulting in a dramatic loss of authority for both Indians and colonists by century's end.Through exhaustive research, Jenny Hale Pulsipher has rewritten the accepted history of the Indian-English relationship in colonial New England, revealing it to be much more complex and nuanced than previously supposed.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Note on the Text

Introduction

Chapter 1 Models of Authority

Chapter 2 Massachusetts Under Fire

Chapter 3 Years of Uncertainty

Chapter 4 Allies Fall Away

Chapter 5 The ''Narragansett War''

Chapter 6 A Perilous Middle Ground

Chapter 7 Massachusetts's Authority Undermined

Chapter 8 A Crisis of Spirit

Chapter 9 Massachusetts Fights Alone

Chapter 10 Surrendering Authority

Epilogue

Appendix: League of Peace Between Massasoit and Plymouth, March 21, 1621

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 4, 2014).

ISBN:

9780812203295

0812203291

OCLC:

872684928