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1676: The End of American Independence Paperback – December 1, 1995

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The colonial experience of Americans was not one long march toward independence. Sixteen hundred seventy-six was a cataclysmic year of Indian insurrection and civil war in America, when the colonies lost their "autonomy" after King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion. Stephen Webb makes clear how the forces unleashed in 1676 revolutionized the relationships between the adolescent colonies, the imperial government in London, and the embattled Algonquin and Iroquois Indians, and shows how the political institutions that evolved in the colonies in the next three hundred years reflected this experience.
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Webb argues here that the hardships of nature, the Indian insurrection, and wars reduced the independent Colonies into English provinces. To make his case, "Webb presents events from the perspectives of the colonists, Whitehall, and the American Indians . . . . This detailed provocative account . . . is bound to stir lively discussion" (LJ 5/15/84).
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Brilliantly controversial, will invite a rethinking of the whole stretch of our American past. ― New York Times Book Review

The product of inspired thinking. ― Booklist

A wonderfully shrewd and satisfying account. . . . A provocative book. ― Kirkus Reviews

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Syracuse University Press; New edition (December 1, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 472 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0815603614
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0815603610
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.57 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.05 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jude Cowell
5.0 out of 5 stars Good for history buffs but also interesting for genealogy research
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2018
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This book has details about Bacon's Rebellion that I haven't found elsewhere. They may appear elsewhere but I have yet to find them until now. Good for history buffs but also interesting for genealogy research.
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GoBiking
3.0 out of 5 stars painful read
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2010
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I have to tell you, reading this book became painful for me. I am a layman who just loves history. I don't need this for school, work, research or anything else, I just love early American history. The material here is good. It is tough to come by good material between settlement and French Indian War. I just did not like the writing. To me it seemed unnecessarily difficult or painful. This is not difficult history or concepts. After a while I really questioned my whole purpose in reading this and even began to dislike the author, I became so irritated. I couldn't wait to put this thing down.

I also did not like the authors habit of placing a label upon everybody and everything. And of course those who wanted to fight Indians were simply racists.
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James E Bridges
5.0 out of 5 stars Bacon not for breakfast
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2017
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Before G Washington there was Bacon
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Carol M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2015
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Another book on my pile of unread books.
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Ryan Lanham
4.0 out of 5 stars Scholarly and Bold but In the End too Scattered
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 1999
Trying to treat bold historical topics is rare amongst today's academic historians except those few who climb the ranks to a select academic elite. More vogue amongst the rank and file historian is the rigourously researched microcosm as representative of a broader historical theme. This book seems to wash somewhere between detailed scholarship of little known events and bold treatment of a historical idea and really is not ultimately effective at either goal. If I had read the draft I would have recommended that the author write three books, one each on the prime topics (or at least one each on King Phillips and Bacon's Revolt) and then a fourth (or third) book that uses the summary view of these key events as the ammunition for a bold historical assertion...that the brothers' monarchy destroyed nascent independence in the colonies and essentially cocked the gun for the revolution of a hundred years later. Together it was simply not as cogent as a single volume should be.
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Carolyn Cline
2.0 out of 5 stars Controversy for its own sake?
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2019
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As a life-academician with 50 years of research into Colonial New England, I had not come across Webb, who does an admirable job of gathering many facts, but whose approach and writing style would confound Perry Miller and other truly great historians. His sweeping generalizations about the Puritans in Massachusetts and the Lees in Virginia cannot be supported. I am used to reading complex histories for my own MA and PhD, but I think the densely packed format of Webb's book was not exactly an invitation to wade in. Having just finished a truly remarkable book with an eerily similar title to this (1666, by Rebecca Rider, published in 2016) I had become comfortable with a work containing admirable scholarship, a reliance on wide-ranging primary sources, and a writing style that does not condescend to the reader. It stopped me from purchasing Webb's other major work.
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3.0 out of 5 stars OK
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2014
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The prose is very complex, tightly argued, not an easy read. That doesn't "sink" the book, but readers may want to know that in advance. Webb has made a career positing unusual takes on colonial history and this one is no different. It was not well-received by the academic crowd when first published. Has a GREAT section on Bacon's Rebellion though.
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Paul H. Blackman
1.0 out of 5 stars Unreadable controversy for its own sake
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2011
The Preface makes it clear that the thesis -- and subtitle -- were chosen primarily for the sake of making a splash, not for necessarily being accurate. I have no idea whether the author made much of a case, since I discovered in the first few dozen pages, and then some selected sections following, that the book is abominably badly written, gives appallingly little actual information on the two major events of 1676 (leaving out huge amounts of information found in books where King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion are only part of the subject matter), and ends with a really bad index.
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