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Very disappointing. This is exactly the type of history book I do NOT enjoy. The first third of the book was promising, with lots of interesting details on the Puritans while in England, their first relocation to Holland, their arrival at Cape Cod, and their first year struggling to survive in their new settlement at Plymouth. Too much of the remainder of the book, however, consisted of descriptions of battles some 50 years later, between the English settlers and the Indians led by "King Phillip" . . . page after page of the battle sites, how many of each side were involved, how many muskets or flintlocks they had, how many died. I was hoping for more a "social history", in which the author elicited empathy or any kind of feeling in the reader, but instead found the narrative tedious. I'll give Philbrick credit for at least one thing, however. He showed clearly how the white man changed the way the Indians waged war. Before European settlement, Indian wars took few casualties; the Europeans taught them how to massacre and aim for genocide.
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reading4years, January 31, 2007
Very disappointing. This is exactly the type of history book I do NOT enjoy. The first third of the book was promising, with lots of interesting details on the Puritans while in England, their first relocation to Holland, their arrival at Cape Cod, and their first year struggling to survive in their new settlement at Plymouth. Too much of the remainder of the book, however, consisted of descriptions of battles some 50 years later, between the English settlers and the Indians led by "King Phillip" . . . page after page of the battle sites, how many of each side were involved, how many muskets or flintlocks they had, how many died. I was hoping for more a "social history", in which the author elicited empathy or any kind of feeling in the reader, but instead found the narrative tedious. I'll give Philbrick credit for at least one thing, however. He showed clearly how the white man changed the way the Indians waged war. Before European settlement, Indian wars took few casualties; the Europeans taught them how to massacre and aim for genocide.Terms and Conditions
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