xiv+273 pages with plates, maps and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter maroon cloth with black lettering to spine over beige boards blind-stamped with title in original pictorial jacket. First edition. "The Red King's Rebellion," fought more than three hundred years ago between the Algonquian peoples and New England settlers, was in per-capita terms the bloodiest war in our nation's history. Before the conflict ended, over 9,000 people were dead (two-thirds of them Native Americans), and homelessness, starvation, and economic hardship plagued the descendents of both races for generations to come. In this fascinating book, Russell Bourne examines the epic struggle from both sides, seeking to explain how the biracial harmony that once reigned--when the Plymouth Colony's neighboring Wampanoags, under the stately Massasoit (King Philip's father), shared their corn with desperate settlers--could degenerate into such mistrust and hatred. More than just a war, Bourne shows how it was a simultaneous rebellion on many fronts against inequalities practiced by white settlers, and demonstrates how it constituted a massive and tragic breakdown of colonial civilization. Condition: Remainder mark on heal end pages. Jacket edges and spine lightly sunned else better than very good in like jacket.

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Title

The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England 1675-1678

Publisher

Atheneum, New York

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0689120001

ISBN 13

9780689120008

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Discusses the causes and results of King Philip's War, in which the Algonquins nearly drove the white settlers out of New England

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For half a century, colonists in New England enjoyed an uneasy peace with the native American Indians, in what Bourne (former editor and publisher of American Heritage Books) calls a biracial society. The idyll ended in 1675 when Pokanoket Prince Philip, son of an Indian sachem who had befriended the Pilgrims, led an uprising, dubbed "King Philip's War." More than half of New England's towns were attacked over two years; 9000 people died; as a result, the Puritan colonies, left battered and deep in debt, came under a tighter British rein. Bourne distances himself from revisionist historians who see the colonists as greedy land-grabbers from the outset and balances conflicting interpretations. The writing in this political history is stiltedwhat does stilted mean in this context/does that do it?gs , however, although sprinkled with dramatic glimpses of the conflict. Illustrations.
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Bourne, former editor and publisher of American Heritage Books, presents a mostly balanced view of King Phillip's War, a conflict between New England Indians and English settlers. Beginning his research "as a visitor among the peoples," Bourne's efforts revealed that previous works on this war were "grotesque distortions." He clearly outlines the war named after Metacom, sachem of the Wampanoag, and his analysis of events leading up to the conflict is especially insightful. While Bourne does not disparage the settlers, his sympathies appear to lie with the Indians. The rebellion has been treated in a number of studies, ranging from Douglas Leach's classic Flintlock and Tomahawk (LJ 4/1/58) to Francis Jennings's revisionist The Invasion of America (LJ 11/15/75). While well researched and written, Bourne's work adds nothing new. Recommended for general readers and research libraries with extensive colonial American collections.
- Cindy Faries, Pennsylvania State Univ. Lib., University Park
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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