The History Of King Philip'S War

Before the American Revolution had a name, New England burned. In Increase Mather's stark record of King Philip's War, fear, faith, and survival collide at the edge of settlement. Blood on the boundary lines. Written by a leading voice of colonial Massachusetts history, this primary source narrative traces the escalation of the 1670s New England conflict that reshaped towns, alliances, and the very idea of safety in the colonies. Mather writes as a Puritan witness, and his Puritan New England writings preserve the texture of emergency: rumour, providence, loss, and resolve. For readers drawn to colonial american history, it stands among the most influential early colonial war accounts, illuminating the pressures of colonial frontier warfare and the wider New England Indian wars that defined the region. Part dispatch, part sermon, it shows how a community explained catastrophe and demanded endurance. This complete text edition offers a vital king philips war history for early american history students and for anyone building a dependable colonial america research reference library. Its historical significance lies not only in what it records, but in how it reveals a seventeenth-century mind making meaning from violence. Read closely and you see rhetoric shaping record, a rare window into Puritan public memory itself. Casual readers will feel the urgency; classic-literature collectors will value its place in early American history. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.