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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. (Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary.) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 376. $29.95.
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| Like most scholars and readers of colonial history, Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney are aware that the Deerfield "massacre" has already received a great deal of scholarly attention (p. 3). In an effort to produce an original and useful contribution to extant historiography, they consciously focus on individuals involved in this battle, an approach that allows them to avoid the generalizations and stereotypes they identify in older accounts of the Deerfield raid. This attention to individual stories is effective by virtue of both the dramatic elements it offers and the novel perspective it advances. |
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