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Algonquian-speaking peoples history
alliance politics among Native nations
archaeology of contact-period villages
Atlantic world colonial encounters
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colonial militias in North America
colonial propaganda analysis
comparative colonial conflicts
cross-cultural misunderstandings
cultural misunderstandings in early America
demographic impact of conflict
early contact-era warfare
environmental pressures and war
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ethnohistory of coastal tribes
fortified villages and palisades
frontier fear and rumor
frontier ideology and religion
historical linguistics and Native history
ideology and expansionism
Indigenous-settler relations
intercultural negotiations breakdown
intercultural violence studies
land dispossession history
land hunger and territorial disputes
material culture of early tribes
military tactics of early colonies
missionary ideology and expansion
missionary settlements and conflict
mythmaking in early American history
narratives of conquest and justification
Native alliances and diplomacy
Native resistance strategies
origins of New England settlements
origins of reservation-era dynamics
power and belief in colonial societies
regional power struggles
reinterpretations of colonial sources
religious rhetoric in warfare
rethinking col
sachems and leadership structures
settler colonialism theory
seventeenth-century frontier conflict
trade networks and rivalry
violence and memory in early America
wampum diplomacy traditions
warfare and seasonal cycles
Product details
- ISBN 9781558490307
- Weight: 489g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 1996
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidences to trace the evolution of the conflict, he sheds new light on the motivations of the Pequots and their Indian allies. He also provides a reappraisal of the interaction of ideology and self- interest as motivating factors in the Puritan attack on the Pequots.
