| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Ann M. Little. Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England. (Early American Studies.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. Pp. 262. $45.00.
Ann M. Little has contributed an interesting and useful new volume to the growing scholarship on gender and warfare in early America. Her book also integrates recent insights from Native American historiography (heavily influenced by ethnography), and she takes a strong cue from scholars such as Daniel K. Richter (Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America [2001]) who argue that early history must integrate an assessment of events from the perspective of indigenous people. Little also draws from recent developments in western and borderlands history to analyze seventeenth and eighteenth-century warfare in what she calls the "northeastern borderlands," an area of contact among English colonists, French colonists, and various Indian peoples.	1
Little notes that important strands in each of the areas of historiography from which she draws have emphasized how colonists and Indians created visions of one another that emphasized difference and shaped their social relations accordingly. While recognizing the importance of this view, she wishes instead to emphasize how the "essential sameness" actually drove many of the conflicts among New Englanders, French, and Algonquin and Iroquois Indian actors. Little argues that ideas about gender were at the heart of this contention over similarity, since "perhaps the most important common touchstone of these cultures was the value they placed on masculinity and on men's performance in war and politics" (p. 7). Little explores how contests over masculinity, driven by some similar cultural understandings, influenced warfare during nearly a century of colonial military clashes.	. . .

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