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  • Tribe, Race, History

    Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880

    Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    This award–winning study examines American Indian communities in Southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction.From 1780–1880, Native Americans lived in the socioeconomic margins. They moved between semiautonomous communities and towns and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Drawing from a wealth of primary documentation, Daniel R. Mandell centers his study on ethnic ... Read more

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  • The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870

    An important examination of the foundational American ideal of economic equality—and how we lost it.Winner of the Missouri Conference on History Book Award for 2021The United States has some of the highest levels of both wealth and income inequality in the world. Although modern-day Americans are increasingly concerned about this growing inequality, many nonetheless believe that the country was ... Read more

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  • King Philip's War

    Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty

    Series series Witness to History
    2010 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineKing Philip's War was the most devastating conflict between Europeans and Native Americans in the 1600s. In this incisive account, award-winning author Daniel R. Mandell puts the war into its rich historical context.The war erupted in July 1675, after years of growing tension between Plymouth and the Wampanoag sachem Metacom, also known as Philip. ... Read more

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  • Tribe, Race, History

    Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880

    Series Book 125 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American HistoriansTribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region’s socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites.Drawing from a wealth of primary ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts

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    "Ninigret adds layers to a crucial period in regional and early American history, and it invites future conversations about cross-cultural power brokers and the nature of indigenous authority and adaptation in the midst of English settler colonialism."— The New England QuarterlyNinigret (c. 1600–1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid ... Read more

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    New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery

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