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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2006<\/p>\n
I enjoyed reading this book very much as it is well-written and very informative as to what happened in New England after the Pilgrims landed.\u00c2\u00a0 The book is very detailed regarding the encounters between the natives and the English and highlights many successful events and relationships and also many that failed.<\/p>\n
In the epilogue to the book, the author states that “There are two possible responses to a world suddenly gripped by terror and contention.\u00c2\u00a0 There is the Mosely way: get mad and get even… There is the Church way.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of loathing the enemy, try to learn as much as possible from him;\u00c2\u00a0 instead of kiling him, try to bring him around to your way of thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 First and foremost, treat him like a human being.”\u00c2\u00a0 Philbrick, in his book, highlights the failures that the first strategy created and details the phenomenal successes that Benjamin Church enjoyed through employment of the latter strategy.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect that, in addition to the historical events of the\u00c2\u00a017th century, our\u00c2\u00a0current situation in Iraq\u00c2\u00a0may have influenced the author to\u00c2\u00a0include this commentary.<\/p>\n
Throughout the book Philbrick relates\u00c2\u00a0historical events to modern-day locations, something I appreciated very much as we spend a great deal of our time in Rhode Island and frequent many of the places he mentions.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, I have done some genealogy research in these areas and had never related my research to the struggles that my ancestors were going through in the time of King Phillips War.\u00c2\u00a0 I will now have additional perspective relating to the struggles they were going through at that time.<\/p>\n
My one criticism of the book may be that Philbrick often seems to view the actions of the English in the context of the twenty-first century.\u00c2\u00a0 This view seems to\u00c2\u00a0create a much more favorable treatment of the actions of the Indians versus the settlers.\u00c2\u00a0 Given the level of atrocities committed by the Indians and the fear induced in the English, I suspect that some of the actions and strategies of the English may have been a bit more justified than Philbrick seems to allow.<\/p>\n
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to clarify his knowledge of early American colonial history, but especially to those who have lived in southern New England for any\u00c2\u00a0period of time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2006 I enjoyed reading this book very much as it is well-written and very informative as to what happened in New England after the Pilgrims landed.\u00c2\u00a0 The book is very detailed regarding the encounters between the natives …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[24,20],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-early-american","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}