{"product_id":"plymouth-colony-narratives-of-english-settlement-and-native-resistance-from-the-mayflower-to-king-philips-war-loa-337-isbn-9781598536737","title":"Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War (LOA #337)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFour centuries after the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e's arrival, a landmark collection of firsthand accounts charting the history of the English newcomers and their fateful encounters with the region's Native peoples\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor centuries the story of the Pilgrims and the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e has been told and retold--the landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving, and the decades that followed, as the colonists struggled to build an enduring and righteous community in the New World wilderness. But the place where the Plymouth colonists settled was no wilderness: it was Patuxet, in the ancestral homeland of the Wampanoag people, a long-inhabited region of fruitful and sustainable agriculture and well-traveled trade routes, a civilization with deep historical memories and cultural traditions. And while many Americans have sought comfort in the reassuring story of peaceful cross-cultural relations embodied in the myth of the first Thanksgiving, far fewer are aware of the complex history of diplomacy, exchange, and conflict between the Plymouth colonists and Native peoples. Now, \u003cb\u003ePlymouth Colony\u003c\/b\u003e brings together for the first time fascinating first-hand narratives written by English settlers--\u003ci\u003eMourt's Relation\u003c\/i\u003e, the classic account of the colony's first year; Governor William Bradford's masterful \u003ci\u003eOf Plimouth Plantation\u003c\/i\u003e; Edward Winslow's \u003ci\u003eGood News from New England\u003c\/i\u003e; the heterodox Thomas Morton's irreverent challenge to Puritanism, \u003ci\u003eNew English Canaan\u003c\/i\u003e; and Mary Rowlandson's landmark \"captivity narrative\" \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereignty and Goodness of God\u003c\/i\u003e--with a selection of carefully chosen documents (deeds, patents, letters, speeches) that illuminate the intricacies of Anglo-Native encounters, the complex role of Christian Indians, and the legacy of Massasoit, Weetamoo, Metacom (\"King Philip\"), and other Wampanoag leaders who faced the ongoing incursion into their lands of settlers from across the sea. The interactions of Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag culminated in the horrors of King Philip's War, a conflict that may have killed seven percent of the total population, Anglo and Native, of New England. While the war led to the end of Plymouth's existence as a separate colony in 1692, it did not extinguish the Wampanoag people, who still live in their ancestral homeland in the twenty-first century.\u003cb\u003eLisa Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of English and American Studies, Amherst College, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eOur Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), which won the Bancroft Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKelly Wisecup\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University, is the author of \u003ci\u003eMedical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and editor of \u003ci\u003e\"Good News from New England\" by Edward Winslow: A Scholarly Edition\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305457602789,"sku":"NP9781598536737","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598536737.jpg?v=1730760567","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/plymouth-colony-narratives-of-english-settlement-and-native-resistance-from-the-mayflower-to-king-philips-war-loa-337-isbn-9781598536737","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}