Jenny Hale Pulsipher

Where the author provides a close analysis of how the drive for political and social control by the government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony alienated its neighbors, both Indian natives and Englishmen, and helped to provoke the series of Indian wars that ultimately humbled the self-proclaimed "city on a hill." The process depicted is such that the assorted Indian polities, religious dissenters, and inhabitants of Maine are anything but cowed by the pretensions of the Bay Colony government, and are quite prepared to appeal to the royal government in England in terms of seeking satisfaction; this linkage of colonial and English politics is what makes this book particularly interesting.… (meer)