Conflict's Career in Colonial Connecticut
Author | : George Marion Hopkins |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1941 |
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Author | : George Marion Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1941 |
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Author | : Jason W. Warren |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806147725 |
The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ravaged much of New England, killing six hundred colonial fighting men (not including their Indian allies), obliterating seventeen white towns, and damaging more than fifty settlements. The version of these events that has come down to us focuses on Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay—the colonies whose commentators dominated the storytelling. But because Connecticut lacked a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason W. Warren makes clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete narrative of the war. Dubbed King Philip’s War after the Wampanoag architect of the hostilities, the conflict, Warren asserts, should more properly be called the Great Narragansett War, broadening its context in time and place and indicating the critical role of the Narragansetts, the largest tribe in southern New England. With this perspective, Warren revises a key chapter in colonial history. In contrast to its sister colonies, Connecticut emerged from the war relatively unharmed. The colony’s comparatively moderate Indian policies made possible an effective alliance with the Mohegans and Pequots. These Indian allies proved crucial to the colony’s war effort, Warren contends, and at the same time denied the enemy extra manpower and intelligence regarding the surrounding terrain and colonial troop movements. And when Connecticut became the primary target of hostile Indian forces—especially the powerful Narragansetts—the colony’s military prowess and its enlightened treatment of Indians allowed it to persevere. Connecticut’s experience, properly understood, affords a new perspective on the Great Narragansett War—and a reevaluation of its place in the conflict between the Narragansetts and the Mohegans and the Pequots of Connecticut, and in American history.
Author | : Jackson Turner Main |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1400857716 |
A pioneer in American social history, Jackson Turner Main presents the first continuous and detailed picture of the economic and social structure of an American colony from its founding up to the Revolution. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Charles McLean Andrews |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801475443 |
A pioneering work first published in 1933 that placed America's colonial experience firmly within the broader history of European colonization. The new foreword by Karen Ordahl Kupperman shows how historians today have returned to Andrews's Atlantic view.
Author | : Waldo Ross Hatch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Connecticut |
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Author | : Martin C. Babicz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Connecticut |
ISBN | : 9781109281163 |
Examines the political career of Thomas Fitch, who, as Connecticut's governor from 1754 to 1766, led his colony through the Seven Years' War and ensuing Stamp Act crisis. A highly ambitious man, Fitch exploited both popular politics and imperial issues to become the first candidate in the eighteenth century to defeat a sitting Connecticut governor in a competitive election. Yet twelve years later, unable to resolve the increasing conflict between imperial demands and popular sentiment, Fitch himself fell victim to an electoral challenge.
Author | : |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Christian Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1949 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : 1418560642 |
"Covers all major wars and conflicts in North America from the late-15th to mid-18th centuries, with discussions of key battles, diplomatic efforts, military technologies, and strategies and tactics ... [E]xplores the context for conflict, with essays on competing colonial powers, every major Native American tribe, all important political and military leaders, and a range of social and cultural issues."--Publisher's Web site.
Author | : Harold E. Selesky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300045529 |
Author | : Douglas Edward Leach |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807898791 |
This lively book recounts the story of the antagonism between the American colonists and the British armed forces prior to the Revolution. Douglas Leach reveals certain Anglo-American attitudes and stereotypes that evolved before 1763 and became an important factor leading to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Using research from both England and the United States, Leach provides a comprehensive study of this complex historical relationship. British professional armed forces first were stationed in significant numbers in the colonies during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. During early clashes in Virginia in the 1670s and in Boston and New York in the late 1680s, the colonists began to perceive the British standing army as a repressive force. The colonists rarely identified with the British military and naval personnel and often came to dislike them as individuals and groups. Not suprisingly, these hostile feelings were reciprocated by the British soldiers, who viewed the colonists as people who had failed to succeed at home and had chosen a crude existence in the wilderness. These attitudes hardened, and by the mid-eighteenth century an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion prevailed on both sides. With the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754, greater numbers of British regulars came to America. Reaching uprecedented levels, the increased contact intensified the British military's difficulty in finding shelter and acquiring needed supplies and troops from the colonists. Aristocratic British officers considered the provincial officers crude amateurs -- incompetent, ineffective, and undisciplined -- leading slovenly, unreliable troops. Colonists, in general, hindered the British military by profiteering whenever possible, denouncing taxation for military purposes, and undermining recruiting efforts. Leach shows that these attitudes, formed over decades of tension-breeding contact, are an important development leading up to the American Revolution.
Author | : Walter W. Woodward |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807895938 |
In Prospero's America, Walter W. Woodward examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by John Winthrop, Jr., one of English colonization's early giants. Winthrop participated in a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten Christ's Second Coming. Woodward demonstrates the influence of Winthrop and his philosophy on New England's cultural formation: its settlement, economy, religious toleration, Indian relations, medical practice, witchcraft prosecution, and imperial diplomacy. Prospero's America reconceptualizes the significance of early modern science in shaping New England hand in hand with Puritanism and politics.