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After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England Ed. by Colin G. Calloway. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997. x, 268 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-87451-819-9.)
Colin G. Calloway, professor of history at Dartmouth College and author or editor of many books on the Native American history of New England, has compiled a reader of nine articles by specialists in the field on the Indian world after King Philip's War. To Calloway, this war
remains the great watershed. . . it is difficult to escape the shadow it casts: we cannot study Indian New England prior to 1675 without the knowledge of the destruction to come; after the war, things are never the same again.
Calloway's edited collection appears to be designed as a classroom reader since it brings previously published writings on New...