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Sometimes described as "America's deadliest war," King Philip's War proved a critical turning point in the history of New England, leaving English colonists decisively in command of the region at the expense of native peoples. Although traditionally understood as an inevitable clash of cultures or as a classic example of conflict on the frontier between Indians and whites, in the view of James D. Drake it was neither. Instead, he argues, King Philip's War was a civil war, whose divisions cut across ethnic lines and tore apart a society composed of English colonizers and Native Americans alike. According to Drake, the interdependence that developed between English and Indian in the years leading up to the war helps explain its notorious brutality. Believing they were dealing with an internal rebellion and therefore with an act of treason, the colonists and their native allies often meted out harsh punishments. The end result was nothing less than the decimation of New England's indigenous peoples and the consequent social, political, and cultural reorganization of the region. In short, by waging war among themselves, the English and Indians of New England destroyed the world they had constructed together. In its place a new society emerged, one in which native peoples were marginalized and the culture of the New England Way receded into the past.

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"What one has here is the genuine article―colonial history that is fully about all the peoples in the region. This is neither 'white' nor 'Indian' history. . . . It is the first serious scholarly history of King Philip's War in well over a generation. Drake is a historian who knows how to write, how to make his subjects fully human, tell multiple stories, and keep his readers eager for more."―Barry O'Connell, editor of On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot

"The need for a single-volume treatment of King Philip's War that is well informed not only by recent scholarship on native peoples but on the English colonizers is greater than ever. Drake satisfies that need by offering a series of provocative theses about the conflict and its protagonists. The result is a book that should be as productively controversial as Jill Lepore's The Name of War."―Neal Salisbury, author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500–1643

"This book is incredibly compelling to read . . . If one wants to learn about how modern New England was formed from the sparse settlements of Puritan Englishmen and Algonquin tribes, this book can be a wonderful contribution to a reader's efforts."―Historical Journal of Massachusetts

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SOMETIMES DESCRIBED as "America's deadliest war", King Philip's War proved a critical turning point in the history of New England, leaving English colonists decisively in command of the region at the expense of native peoples. Although traditionally understood as an inevitable clash of cultures or as a classic example of Indian-white frontier conflict, in the view of James D. Drake it was neither. Instead, he argues, King Philip's War was a civil war, whose divisions cut across simple ethnic lines and tore apart a society composed of English colonizers and Native Americans alike.

According to Drake, the interdependence that developed between English and Indian in the years leading up to the war helps explain its notorious brutality. The end result was nothing less than the decimation of New England's indigenous peoples and the consequent social, political, and cultural reorganization of the region.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Massachusetts Press; First edition (June 30, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1558492240
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1558492240
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1490L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.61 x 9 inches

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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2007

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REVIEW: Drake, James D. King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
I was born and raised in New York state, though now I reside in Rhode Island. Such being the case, on occasion I have thought to familiarize myself with the history of the state and of New England. I discovered the book, King Philip's War: Civil War In New England, 1675-1676, by James D. Drake. I read it because the issues raised in that war continue to bedevil Rhode Island.
A brief resume of the war is as follows: In 1675, the Wampanoag Tribe under the leadership of King Philip, also known by his native name, Metacom, rebelled against the English colonies in Southeastern New England with whom it had various alliances, and against whom it had various grievances including the peremptory hanging of two Wampanoags. (The author is excellent on the causes of the war.) The Wampanoags were joined by some but not all the other tribes in the region. After initial success in fighting the war, the rebels were defeated by the English settlers, and essentially eradicated. As part of that war, there occurred, in 1676, in the area now known as West Kingston, RI, a battle called the Great Swamp Fight, in which the Indians were defeated. The Great Swamp Fight is considered to be the first massacre of native peoples in America.
The reason the war continues to be a factor in Rhode Island is that the remnants of the native tribes, melded into a single tribe now called the Narragansetts, have been attempting to get the right to build a casino under terms of the Indian Gaming Act passed by Congress in 1988. They have been frustrated in doing so by Rhode Island's leading politicians----and hypocritically because gambling exists in other venues in Rhode Island, and is increasing. (The politicians pander to the moral sense of the people while advancing gambling in other guises. Further, prejudice is involved because the Narragansetts intermixed with the descendants of African slaves, though of course the politicians deny their prejudice.) The Narragansetts are considered a threat, though there are hardly 3000 of them, as compared to about 1 million other residents of the state.
Further again, there continues to this day to be litigation about the Narragansetts attempting, a few years ago, to open a smoke shop where federal and state taxes were not collected on tobacco products. The Rhode Island State Troopers, under the Republican Governor Donald L. Carcieri, forcibly closed the smoke shop, though now it is admitted that force was not needed but that legal warrants could have accomplished its closing until the issue of sovereignty could be decided.
Further once more, it is impossible to get away from associations with that era. Indian names are part of every section of the state. The Wampanoag Trail is a major highway from Providence to the communities on the eastern side of Narragansett Bay. Nearby to where I live, there are the names of streets: Metacom, Pokanoket, Massasoit, and on and on. I live on Wamsetta Avenue.
Finally, neither is it possible to avoid the names of the English settlers who prosecuted the war in the New England colonies: Winslow, Winthrop, Coddington, Church, Cotton, Denison, Eliot, Mather, Gorton---I could go on and on with such names. These names fill the telephone books, and those persons are related to the colonial figures in some manner.
I agree with Drake that King Philip's War was not a racially instigated war of the English settlers against the Native American tribes. However, as the author is careful to point out, while some of the Indians, in tribal groups and as individuals, fought on the side of various English colonies, none of the English colonists sided with the rebels. Furthermore, the Native American tribespeople were greatly outnumbered by the English, on the order of about 18 thousand to about 60 thousand. And with the English way of fighting, which was annihilatory (both the Indians of that time and the author condemn it), the outcome was predictable.
I also agree with Drake that the origins of America are multiple and not exclusively linear from the New England colonies. However, neither is the 17th century experience of the English Colonies discontinuous with the development of the United States---even though there are many "Americas," from colonial, to revolutionary, to the national period, to the civil war era, to the rise of finance capitalism (the Gilded Age), to the immigrant period, to the Great Depression era, to the World Wars I & II, industrial, cold war, Vietnam, etc. I came to intellectual awareness in the 1960s and know from personal experience that that era differs so much from the era of Bush II, 9/11 and the Iraq War as to comprise a different and distinct political entity. America, though, is a case of "E Pluribus Enum" not only with persons but with politico-economico-cultural eras.
There is a grisly contemporary note in Drake's fine book. We know of the barbarity of the Islamic terrorists in decapitating a few western hostages. The native American tribes that rebelled against the English colonies were considered to have committed treason because they had made certain alliances with the English colonies. That was English law in the 17th century. It is doubtful that the tribes understood the English law. However, the penalty for treason was to be drawn and quartered. King Philip was killed in the Great Swamp Fight. Nevertheless, his corpse was dragged out of the bog and the punishment was administered to it. (In case you do not know what it means to be drawn and quartered, I will tell you. First, the head is cut off. Then the body is hacked apart at the waist, and the torso and crotch are each halved.) Surely, the Islamic terrorists are barbaric, and just as certainly were the 17th century colonists, and so are we who are their direct descendants.
In fact, reading Drake's fine, precise and carefully written book it appears to me less that I am engaged in an exercise of the understanding of ancient history than in reading a subtext to the daily news.
(TRC Final Revision 08-17-09)

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Daniel R. Seligman

Well-Written, Well-Argued and Balanced Treatment

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2000

James D. Drake's "King Philip's War" offers a tight, well-argued thesis that the King Philip War should be viewed more as a civil insurrection than a "settler-versus-Indian" conflict. It is not a chronological account of the war but rather a well-researched interpretation. For a detailed account of the war's events, the reader should see Douglas Leach's "Flintlock and Tomahawk" or Jill Lepore's "The Name of War." Indeed, for a full appreciation of Drake's arguments it is probably a good idea to have read beforehand one or the other of these excellent accounts.
Drake examines the tensions among the various groups that figured in the war -- the bickering among the English colonies, the divided loyalties of the so-called praying Indians, the complex relationships among the Wampanoags, Narragansetts and other Algonquian tribes -- and argues that the war can best be explained as a conflict within single a society rather than a racial conflict between the Puritans and the natives. He frequently resorts to the molecular analogy of covalent bonding to explain how different groups can contribute to a definable whole (the molecule) while remaining in some fashion distinct (the atoms).
Drake's work invites comparison with Russell Bourne's "The Red King's Rebellion," also an interpretive piece. Bourne examines how an amicable relationship between the Puritans and the Algonquians dating from the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620 degenerated into an ugly armed conflict in the 1670s. While both Bourne and Drake take pains to examine the war from the perspectives of both the colonists and the Algonquians, Drake seems a little less prone to condemn the Puritans and more willing to view their treatment of the natives in the context of contemporary European attitudes toward war and rebellion.
"King Philip's War," a well-written, well-argued and balanced treatment of a complex subject, is both good scholarship and good reading.

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James Holloway

Academia at its dull, pendantic, worst

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2000

I got interested in this period of history after reading Parkman's masterful "France and England" series. Drake's book is the opposite -- dull, politically correct, completely lacking a sense of drama, written more with a view to securing tenure than increasing knowledge of this period. There's all the buzzwords -- indentity and gender and sexual politics, hints of Foucault and Derrida... an absolute waste of money. I pity his students. I pity the study of history. Morrison, Parkman, Freeman, Foote -- where are you when we need you?

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Cindy Cutler

I went to the library, brought home a stack of King Philips books and this one was the best

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2014

I know some reviewers disagree with the civil war theory of the book but I think it's be best one out there. Part of what makes this war interesting is that it is unique and hard to compare to other wars so it does make it difficult to put a label on it. But I do agree that "civil war" is the best one.

This book does touch on the racial and religious aspects of the war but also goes into economic and political alliances between the leadership of the colonies and the Indians. This is information that I wasn't able to find in any other book and which I found to be interesting and relevant.

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