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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

European and Native American Warfare, 1675-1815. By Armstrong Starkey. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. viii, 208 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-8061-3074-1. Paper, $17.95, isbn 0-8061-3075-X.)

Drawing upon over twenty-five years of revisionist history, Armstrong Starkey examines "the Indian way of war" from the seventeenth into the nineteenth centuries. Rejecting the nationalist tradition best characterized by Francis Parkman and later validated by Lawrence Henry Gipson, the author explains that Native Americans fought invading Europeans with remarkable success for nearly two centuries. To understand why requires taking Indians on their own terms. . . .

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