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Notes Introduction 1. Samuel Nowell, Abraham in Arms, or, The First Religious General with his Army Engaging in a War (Boston, 1678). On reports of the French in southern Maine in the summer of1676, see Joshua Scottow and Henry Jocelyn, letter to Governor John Leverett, September 15, 1676, Coll. S-888, misc. box 33/21, Maine Historical Society, Portland. 2. John Underhill, Newes from America (London, 1638; reprint, 1891), 15-16; ms. copy of depositions of David and Hannah Meade, Cambridge, Mass., 1677, Maine Historical Society, Portland. 3· See, for example, divorce petition of Christopher Lawson, Suffolk Court Files, docket #913, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1922; reprint, Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1989), vols. 1 and 2, passim. 4. Richard Trexler, Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest ofthe Americas (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995); James D. Drake, King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999); Pauline Turner Strong, Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics ofColonial American Captivity Narratives (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999); Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Indians and English : Facing Off in Early America (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000); Joyce Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the AngloAmerican Frontier, 1500-1676 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001); John Wood Sweet, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003); Nancy Shoemaker, A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 5. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, "African American Women's History and the Metalanguage ofRace," Signs: Journal ofWomen in Culture and Society 17 (1992): 251-74; Gerda Lerner, "U.S. Women's History: Past, Present, and Future," Kimberly Springer, "Unexpected: Women, Sources, and Histories," Kathi Kern, "Productive Collaborations: The Benefits of Cultural Analysis to the Past, Present, and Future of Women's History," Jennifer M. Spear, "The Distant Past of North American Women's History," Leslie M. Alexander, "The Challenge of Race: Rethinking the Position of Black Women in the Field ofWomen's History," and Lerner, "Reply to Responses," all in Journal ofWomen's History 16 (2004): 10-64. 6. Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: 210 Notes to Pages 3-5 Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill: University ofNorth Carolina Press, 1996); Kirsten Fischer, Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002); Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). 7· Jill Lepore, The Name ofWar: King Philip's War and the Origins ofAmerican Identity (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998); Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (New York: Public Affairs, 2002). 8. Daniel Mandell, Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996); Claudio Saunt, A New Order ofThings: Property, Power, and the Transformation ofthe Creek Indians, 17331816 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Susan Sleeper-Smith, Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001). 9· Lyndal Roper, The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989); Merry E. Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2ooo); P. Renee Baernstein, A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan (New York: Routledge, 2002). 10. Irene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987); Ramon Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991); John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making ofthe Atlantic World, 1400-1680 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Michael Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation ofAfrican Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). n. Saunt, A New Order of Things; Sleeper-Smith, Indian Woman and French Men. 12. Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking ofEarly America (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997); Peter C. Mancall and James H. 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