![]() ![]() Because war is “at least in part, a contest for meaning,” King Phillip’s War was about defining identity-for both sides (xxxi). Ultimately, she argues that “wounds and words-the injuries and their interpretation-cannot be separated, that acts of war generate acts of narration, and that both types of acts are often joined in a common purpose: defining the geographical, political, cultural, and sometimes racial and national boundaries between peoples” (x). She asks what this war meant, how it was fought, how it was understood, and how it was remembered by both sides. In this “study of war,” Lepore examines the conflict between colonists, American “Indians” 1 that razed English colonies and ravaged Indian-English relations. The first words of Jill Lepore’s The Name of War work surprisingly well as an introduction to a review on the very same book. “ This is a study of war, and how people write about it” (ix). The Name of War: King Phillip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. ![]()
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