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venusdewillendorf's review against another edition
5.0
An incredible read—I highly recommending navigating this book alongside Brooks’ companion website.
jaclyn_youngblood's review against another edition
4.0
Whew! That was a dense read. I think the author's attempt to unmoor this narrative from colonized structures and ways of storytelling really, really worked. It was a meta journey to follow the interludes and geographic considerations alongside primary source documents (which, themselves, are questionable as narration) and court orders. I learned so much about Weetamoo and Quaiapin in particular.
ellythehuman's review against another edition
3.0
This was a real chunker, but I am finally done! I give this a three only because there were times where it felt dense and drawn out. However I believe Lisa Brooks did an incredible job reinterpreting and extending this period of history.
katieg's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
3.5
A very informative text. Brooks engages deeply in a project of decolonizing historical practices and methodology as well as decolonizing an Anglo-European narrative of Natives in New England. The engagement with primary sources is deep and evident throughout the text, as is engagement with the archive and the presentation of underutilized sources in the narrative of King Philip's War. While I appreciated a lot of this text, it was very dense to read at times, and seemed sometimes purposefully confusing. I would not recommend this to anyone who does not have some prior knowledge of the events discussed in the book or to anyone without experience reading academic historical texts. While not accessible, I did find the book thought-provoking and would recommend it to anyone interested in historiography or historical methodology.