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New England outpost : war and society in colonial frontier Deerfield, Massachusetts

"The struggle to take and hold this place, and the lives of the people -- Indian and English -- who came and left and came again, comprise the essence of this story. It is a study of the famous 1704 massacre, yet looks at much wider conflict because wars raged in and around Deerfield for decades before and after 1704. It is a study of war and the frontier, yet also a study of the ways of life of the people who lived there, for to understand these colonial wars and what they meant, one must grasp how these people coped with the conflicts and their effects. How would such a town function -- politically, economically, socially? How would people adjust to the extraordinary threats of the 17th and 18th century frontier; or were those threats in fact extraordinary? And what became of the Indians who lost the land? How and why had they struggled to keep it?"--Chap 1.

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