1st Edition

War and Colonization in the Early American Northeast

By Christoph Strobel Copyright 2023
154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book takes a new approach by synthesizing the work of scholars of military and Indigenous history to provide the first chronologically ordered, region-wide, and long-term narrative history of conflict in the Early American Northeast. War and Colonization in the Early American Northeast focuses on war and society, European colonization, and Indigenous peoples in New England from the... Read more

1. War before New England: Conflict and Society in Dawnland 2. "It is too furious, it slays too many:" English Colonization and Conflict in Southern New England through King Philip’s War 3. "For every Scalp. . . as Evidence of their Being Killed:" Wars and the Colonization of Northern New England

Biography

Christoph Strobel is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. He is the author of Native Americans of New England (2020), The Global Atlantic: 1400–1900 (2015), The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire (2008), and many other publications.

"Strobel provides succinct introductions to thematic and chronological topics, outlines the challenges historians face in locating the full range of appropriate sources and evidence, discusses the limitations of these sources, proposes ways to analyze European accounts for Indigenous perspectives, and offers Indigenous accounts and source materials where available...As a result, War and Colonization is well suited for the undergraduate classroom and nonspecialists interested in the historical experiences of Indigenous peoples and Puritan colonizers."

Kelly Hopkins, University of Houston, USA. H-Early-America, H-Net Reviews. August, 2024.