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1 online resource (342 pages) |
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Warfare & Culture |
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Warfare & Culture
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List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on Method; 1 "For the best ordering of the militia": English Military Precedent and the Early Massachusetts Bay Militia; 2 The Massachusetts Bay Militia and the Practice of Impressment during King Philip's War; 3 Many Men, Many Choices: Impressment in Essex County's Thriving Towns; 4 Few Men, Few Options: Impressment in Essex County's Small Towns; 5 The Pressed Men of Essex County: The Social Identity of the Soldiers of King Philip's War; 6 The Effects of Impressment: War and Peace in Essex County |
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Afterword: The Military of Massachusetts Bay TransformedAppendix 1: The Soldiers of Essex County in King Philip's War, 1675-1676; Appendix 2: Rowley's 1662 Tax List: Ranked by Family with Soldiers' Families Highlighted; Appendix 3: Topsfield's 1668 Tax List: Ranked by Family with Soldiers' Families Highlighted; Appendix 4: An Examination of the Age of Essex County Soldiers and Officers in King Philip's War, 1675-1676; Appendix 5: The Occupations of the Soldiers of Essex County, 1675-1676; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Permissions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I |
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JK; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author |
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While it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip's War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire's most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip's War marked the first time that Massachusetts had to mobilize mass numbers of ordinary, local men to fight. In this exhaustive social history and community study of Essex County, Massachusetts's militia, Kyle F. Zelner boldly challenges traditional interpretations of who was called to serve during |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Massachusetts. Militia -- History
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Massachusetts. Militia fast |
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Impressment -- History
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King Philip's War, 1675-1676.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Impressment
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New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091268
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Essex County (Mass.) -- History -- 17th century
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Massachusetts -- Essex County
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New England
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814797464 |
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0814797466 |
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0814797342 |
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9780814797341 |
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0814797180 |
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9780814797181 |
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