Patricia E. Rubertone | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Book Review

King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675–1676. By James D. Drake. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. x, 257 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-55849-223-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-55849-224-0.)

King Philip's War has been called many things: America's deadliest, bloodiest, cruelest, and costliest war; and it has also had more written about it than any other conflict of its kind. James D. Drake adds to that list of appellations by calling it America's first civil war. His book on this military conflict among (rather than simply between) English colonists and Native Americans asks us to reconceptualize seventeenth-century New England and what we have learned about the war. The result is an intriguing book that challenges us to think about colonial New England as a more diverse and multicultural society than has typically been imagined and one that, at least for a brief time, may have presented a world of different possibilities. . . .

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