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Times of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America.

  • Published In: Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2023, v. 131, n. 1. P. 77 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Carayon, Celine 3 of 3

Abstract

Through masterful investigative workspanning numerous archives in several colonies, Kruersuccessfully challenges traditional geographicalframeworks to redraw the main lines of the historicalnarrative of the Time of Anarchy around the rise, fall,and rebirth of the protean Susquehannocks. But in the decade between 1675 and 1685, theEnglish colonies were engulfed in an unprecedented waveof Anglo-Indian warfare and internal civil unrest, amongwhich Bacon's Rebellion in the Chesapeake and KingPhilip's War in New England are best remembered. Book Reviews Times of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and theCrisis of Colonialism in Early America * Matthew Kruer* Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021* 330 pp. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Virginia Magazine of History & Biography. 2023/01, Vol. 131, Issue 1, p77
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0042-6636
  • Accession Number:162489199
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