Memory Lands

Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

Author	Christine M. DeLucia
Subject	Indigenous history
Published	2018
Media type	Print
ISBN	9780300201178

Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence is a 2018 book by Williams College history professor Christine DeLucia.^[1] The book was published by Yale University Press's Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity.^[2] It looks at over three hundred years of Indigenous history from King Philip's War to the present day, mostly in the North American Northeast, as well as in Bermuda. The book focuses on the role of place and details the continued presence of Indigenous peoples and memory in Bastoniak (Boston), Narragansett (roughly overlapping with Rhode Island), along the middle of the Kwinitekw (Connecticut River) Valley, and Bermuda.

Reception

Memory Lands has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize,^[3] the 2019 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize from the Massachusetts Historical Society,^[4] and the 2020 Lois P. Rudnick Prize from the New England American Studies Association.^[5] It also won an honorable mention from the National Council on Public History in 2019.^[6] The book has been discussed and reviewed widely, including with DeLucia in conversation with WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti^[7] and by a group of scholars for H-Environment Roundtable Reviews.^[8]

References

1. "Christine M. DeLucia, Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018)". Yale University Press.
2. "Henry Roe Cloud Series, Yale University Press".
3. "Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize Winners".
4. "Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize, Massachusetts Historical Society".
5. "Lois P. Rudnick Prize, New England American Studies Association". 19 January 2018.
6. "National Council on Public History Book Awards". Archived from the original on 2019-12-09.
7. "How We Remember King Philip's War". WBUR. January 16, 2018.
8. "H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, Christine M. DeLucia's Memory Lands" (PDF).

Further reading

• Bilodeau, Christopher J. (2019). "Review of Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast". Journal of American Ethnic History. 38 (3): 126–127. doi:10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.3.0126. ISSN 0278-5927. JSTOR 10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.3.0126.
• Cohen, Matt (2019). "A Conversation with Lisa Brooks about Our Beloved Kin". Native American and Indigenous Studies. 6 (1): 157–164. doi:10.5749/natiindistudj.6.1.0157. ISSN 2332-1261. JSTOR 10.5749/natiindistudj.6.1.0157. S2CID 194356798.
• Kolodny, Annette (2018). "Review of Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast". Native American and Indigenous Studies. 5 (2): 151–153. doi:10.5749/natiindistudj.5.2.0151. ISSN 2332-1261. JSTOR 10.5749/natiindistudj.5.2.0151.
• Nelson, John William (1 April 2019). "Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast". Ethnohistory. 66 (2): 385–386. doi:10.1215/00141801-7300132. S2CID 166967248.