The Name of War by Jill Lepore

The Name of War by Jill Lepore

BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER * King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indigenous peoples--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."

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 Indigenous peoples and Anglos. 

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.

Jill Lepore is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. The House of Bliss, The Whites of Their Eyes (Princeton), and Book of Ages: The Life and Views of Jane Franklin are only a few of her works.

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ISBN 13	9780375702624
ISBN 10	0375702628
Title	The Name of War
Author	Jill Lepore
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1999-04-27
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Winner of Bancroft Prize 1999, Winner of Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award 1998
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