p.s. there weren’t any Indian “savages”…

Book review:

New England Encounters:

Indians & Euroamericans, ca. 1600-1850

Alden T. Vaughan, ed.

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999

427 pages

New England Encounters is a wide-ranging collection of essays from The New England Quarterly.

The relationships of the indigenous Indians and the European colonists were complex. The essays in New England Encounters help to make those relationships more understandable. This process reinforces our understanding that the Indians were not “savages”—they had sophisticated, dynamic cultures.

The Europeans brought guns, germs, and steel (tip of the hat to Jared Diamond).

Nevertheless, Indian cultures persisted for quite a long time.

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How the Irish Became White (book review)

another slice of American history by Noel Ignatiev

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