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Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country

Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in... THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). She is currently working on two projects: one on first-person narratives of colonial shipwreck, and another on gothic forms in early Caribbean plantation literature. Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country. By Julie A. Fisher and David J. Silverman. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii, 190. $27.95.) Ninigret, seventeenth-century sachem in lands west of Narragansett Bay, has been a shadowy figure in most scholarly accounts of colonial New England and the Native Northeast. Unlike Uncas, the Mohegan leader who strategically aligned himself with English authorities, or the Wampanoag Metacom (King Philip), who led a multi-tribal indigenous resistance movement, Ninigret has largely remained on the periphery of early American scholarship. This concise new study, coauthored by Julie Fisher and David Silverman, aims to recuperate Ninigret’s standing as it argues for his centrality in the region’s history during a pivotal period of transformation and violence. By tracking the repeated diplomatic maneuverings of Ninigret and his relations— often in the face of intense colonialism—Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts exposes the difficult decisions Native leaders http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The New England Quarterly MIT Press

Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country

DeLucia, Christine
The New England Quarterly , Volume 87 (4) – Dec 1, 2014
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MIT Press
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© 2014 by The New England Quarterly
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Book Reviews
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0028-4866
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1937-2213
DOI
10.1162/TNEQ_r_00428
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THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). She is currently working on two projects: one on first-person narratives of colonial shipwreck, and another on gothic forms in early Caribbean plantation literature. Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country. By Julie A. Fisher and David J. Silverman. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii, 190. $27.95.) Ninigret, seventeenth-century sachem in lands west of Narragansett Bay, has been a shadowy figure in most scholarly accounts of colonial New England and the Native Northeast. Unlike Uncas, the Mohegan leader who strategically aligned himself with English authorities, or the Wampanoag Metacom (King Philip), who led a multi-tribal indigenous resistance movement, Ninigret has largely remained on the periphery of early American scholarship. This concise new study, coauthored by Julie Fisher and David Silverman, aims to recuperate Ninigret’s standing as it argues for his centrality in the region’s history during a pivotal period of transformation and violence. By tracking the repeated diplomatic maneuverings of Ninigret and his relations— often in the face of intense colonialism—Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts exposes the difficult decisions Native leaders

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Published: Dec 1, 2014

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