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It had been far from certain that the Americans could fight a successful war
against the might of Britain. The scattered colonies had little inherent unity; their
experience of collective action was limited; an army had to be created and
maintained; they had no common institutions other than the Continental
Congress; and they had almost no experience of continental public finance.
The Americans could not have hoped to win the war without French help,
and the French monarchy--whose interests were anti-British but not
pro-American--had waited watchfully to see what the Americans could do
in the field. Although the French began supplying arms, clothing, and loans
surreptitiously soon after the Americans declared independence, it was not
until 1778 that they entered into a formal alliance. (encyclopedia britannica)
now the top selling book on the period cnverges on the details ...
In 1675, tensions between Native Americans and colonists residing in New England erupted into the brutal conflict that has come to be known as King Philip's War, named after Philip, the leader of the Wampanoag Indians. Jill Lepore's book is an evocative and insightful study of America's recollection and understanding of one of the bloodiest wars to take place on its soil.
Lepore, an assistant professor of history at Boston University, depicts the horrors of this conflict, from gruesome tortures to the massacre of women and children, so explicitly barbaric that the term "war" barely applies. An underlying theme of her narrative is that this unfortunate battle only served to strengthen the boundaries of cultural difference between the Native Americans and colonists, setting a rigid foundation for the many years of enmity between Indians and Anglos that would ensue
1. The Name of War : King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
by Jill Lepore
2. Democracy in America
by Alexis De Tocqueville, R. Heffner (Editor)
3. Many Thousands Gone : The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
by Ira Berlin
4. American Scripture : Making the Declaration of Independence
by Pauline Maier
5. Democracy in America
by Alexis De Tocqueville, et al
6. American Scripture : Making the Declaration of Independence
by Pauline Maier
7. The Unredeemed Captive : A Family Story from Early America
by John Demos
8. Democracy in America (Vintage Classics): Volume 1
by Alexis De Tocqueville, et al
9. Alexander Hamilton, American
by Richard Brookhiser
10. Changes in the Land Indians Colonists and the Ecology of New England
by William Cronon
11. The Americans, the Colonial Experience (A Caravelle Edition)
by Daniel J. Boorstin
12. Miracle at Philadelphia : The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
by Catherine Drinker Bowen
13. Slave Counterpoint : Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American histor
by Philip D. Morgan
14. The First Salute
by Barbara W. Tuchman
15. Wilderness at Dawn : The Settling of the North American Continent
by Ted Morgan
16. A Delusion of Satan : The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
by Frances Hill, Karen Armstrong (Introduction)
17. The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
by Gordon S. Wood(Preface)
18. American Holocaust : The Conquest of the New World
by David E. Stannard
19. First Generations : Women in Colonial America
by Carol Berkin
20. The Life of Daniel Boone
by Lyman Copeland Draper, Ted Franklin Belue (Editor)
21. From Resistance to Revolution : Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776
by Pauline Maier
22. Exchanging Our Country Marks : The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
by Michael Angelo Gomez
23. The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776
by Duane Meyer
24. American Slavery American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
by Edmund S. Morgan
25. In Pursuit of Reason : The Life of Thomas Jefferson
by Noble E. Cunningham
26. Salem Possessed : The Social Origins of Witchcraft
by Paul Boyer(Preface), Stephen Nissenbaum (Preface)
27. Flintlock and Tomahawk : New England in King Philip's War
by Douglas Edward Leach, Samuel Eliot Morison (Introduction)
28. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs : Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
by Kathleen M. Brown
29. The New History in an Old Museum : Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg
by Richard Handler, Eric Gable
30. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution
by Mark M., III Boatner
31. Montcalm and Wolfe : The French and Indian War
by Francis Parkman, C. Vann Woodward
32. America at 1750 : A Social Portrait
by Richard Hofstadter
33. The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Modern Library)
by Thomas Jefferson, et al
34. A Little Commonwealth : Family Life in Plymouth Colony
by John Demos
35. Everyday Life in Early America (Everyday Life in America)
by David Freeman Hawke
36. The Invasion of America : Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest
by Francis Jennings
37. Benjamin Franklin : Writings
by Benjamin Franklin, J.A. Leo Lemay (Editor)
38. Beer in America : The Early Years, 1587-1840 : Beers Role in the Settling of America and the Birth of a Nation
by Gregg Smith
39. Blackbeard the Pirate : A Reappraisal of His Life and Times
by Robert Earl Lee
40. Postcolonial Theory : A Critical Introduction
by Leela Gandhi
41. Novus Ordo Seclorum : The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
by Forrest McDonald
42. The Peopling of British North America : An Introduction
by Bernard Bailyn
43. Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft
by Paul S. Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum (Contributor)
44. The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840 (Everyday Life in America)
by Jack Larkin
45. In the Matter of Color
by Leon Higginbotham, A. Leon Higginbotham
46. Founding Mothers & Fathers : Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
by Mary Beth Norton
47. Betrayals : Fort William Henry and the 'Massacre'
by Ian Kenneth Steele
48. The Virginia Adventure : Roanoke to James Towne : An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey (Virginia Bookshelf)
by Ivor Noel Hume, et al
49. The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649 (The John Harvard Library) [ABRIDGED]
by John Winthrop, et al
50. Into the American Woods : Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
by James Hart Merrell, James H. Merrell
51. Home Life in Colonial Days
by Alice Morse Earle, et al
52. Empire of Fortune : Crown, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America
by Francis Jennings
53. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
by Rhys L. Isaac
54. Carolina Cradle : Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762
by Robert W. Ramsey
55. Exiled in the Land of the Free : Democracy, Indian Nations & the U.S. Constitution
by Oren Lyons, et al
56. After King Philip's War : Presence and Persistence in Indian New England (Re-Encounters With Colonialism)
by Colin G. Calloway(Editor)
57. New England Mind : The Seventeenth Century
by Perry Miller
58. A New World : An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec
by Arthur Quinn
59. Our Natural History : The Lessons of Lewis and Clark
by Daniel B. Botkin
60. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman : Witchcraft in Colonial New England
by Carol F. Karlsen(Preface)
61. Child Life in Colonial Days (American Classics)
by Alice Morse Earle, Jack Larkin (Designer)
62. The Bulletproof George Washington
by Charles D. Barton, et al
63. Voyagers to the West : A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
by Bernard Bailyn, Barbara DeWolfe (Photographer)
64. Rebels and Redcoats : The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived It (Da Capo Paperback)
by George F. Scheer(Editor), Hugh F. Rankin (Photographer)
65. What the Anti-Federalists Were for
by Herbert J. Storing, Murray Dry
66. The Ordeal of the Longhouse : The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
by Daniel K. Richter
67. The Devil's Disciples : Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
by Peter Charles Hoffer
68. New England Mind : From Colony to Province
by Perry Miller
69. Origins of American Politics
by Bernard Bailyn
70. The Lord Cornbury Scandal : The Politics of Reputation in British America
by Patricia U. Bonomi
71. The United States Constitution : The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, & Additional Amendments
by Walter Cronkite(Reader)
72. Roanoke : The Abandoned Colony
by Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Karen Ordall Kupperman
73. Abenaki Warrior : The Life and Times of Chief Escumbuit, Big Island Pond, 1665-1727 : French Hero! British Monster! Indian Patriot!
by Alfred E. Kayworth, et al
74. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada : From the Spring of 1763 to the Death of Pontiac
by Francis Parkman, Michael N. McConnell (Introduction)
75. Castaways : The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca (Latin American Literature and Culture, No 10)
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, et al
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