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Memory lands : King Philip's War and the place of violence in the northeast /

"Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip's War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Delucia, Christine M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Series:Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : memories of corn and quartz : rethinking stories of violence and survivance
  • Introduction : placemaking and memorializing after the great watershed
  • Part I. The way to Deer Island. Contested passages : coastal and inland homelands, Bastoniak, and internment by the "city upon a hill"
  • Protesting the "perfect city" : reorganizing native memoryscapes across Greater Boston
  • Part II. The Narragansett Country. Habitations by Narragansett Bay : coastal homelands, encounters with Roger Williams, and routes to Great Swamp
  • Monumentalizing after "detribalization," and swamp discourse from casinos to Carcieri
  • Part III. The Great River. The gathering place : a trafficked waterway, dawn massacre, and material legacies of the "falls fight"
  • Power and persistence along a changing river : industrial transformations, ceremonial landscapes, and contemporary reconciliations
  • Part IV. The red Atlantic. Algonquia diasporas : Indigenous bondages, fugitive geographies, and the edges of Atlantic memories
  • Conclusion : reopening history.