Memory Lands
{{Short description|2018 book by Christine DeLucia}}
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| author = Christine M. DeLucia
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| subject = Indigenous history
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| isbn = 9780300201178
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Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence is a 2018 book by Williams College history professor Christine DeLucia.{{Cite web|work=Yale University Press|title=Christine M. DeLucia, Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018).|url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300201178/memory-lands}} The book was published by Yale University Press's Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity.{{Cite web|title=Henry Roe Cloud Series, Yale University Press|url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/series/the-henry-roe-cloud-series-on-american-indians-and-modernity}} 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,{{Cite web|title=Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize Winners|url=https://berksconference.org/prizes/book-prize-winners/}} the 2019 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize from the Massachusetts Historical Society,{{Cite web|title=Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize, Massachusetts Historical Society|url=https://www.masshist.org/gomesprize}} and the 2020 Lois P. Rudnick Prize from the New England American Studies Association.{{Cite web|title=Lois P. Rudnick Prize, New England American Studies Association|date=19 January 2018|url=https://newenglandasa.wordpress.com/awards-winners/}} It also won an honorable mention from the National Council on Public History in 2019.{{Cite web|title=National Council on Public History Book Awards|url=https://ncph.org/about/awards/book-award/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209170408/https://ncph.org/about/awards/book-award/|archive-date=2019-12-09}} The book has been discussed and reviewed widely, including with DeLucia in conversation with WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti{{Cite news|date=January 16, 2018|title=How We Remember King Philip's War|work=WBUR|url=https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2018/01/16/king-philips-war}} and by a group of scholars for H-Environment Roundtable Reviews.{{Cite web|title=H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, Christine M. DeLucia's Memory Lands|url=https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/environmentalroundtable-10-7.pdf}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |last1=Bilodeau |first1=Christopher J. |title=Review of Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast |journal=Journal of American Ethnic History |date=2019 |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=126–127 |doi=10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.3.0126 |jstor=10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.3.0126 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.3.0126 |issn=0278-5927}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Matt |title=A Conversation with Lisa Brooks about Our Beloved Kin |journal=Native American and Indigenous Studies |date=2019 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=157–164 |doi=10.5749/natiindistudj.6.1.0157 |jstor=10.5749/natiindistudj.6.1.0157 |s2cid=194356798 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/natiindistudj.6.1.0157 |issn=2332-1261}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Kolodny |first1=Annette |title=Review of Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast |journal=Native American and Indigenous Studies |date=2018 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=151–153 |doi=10.5749/natiindistudj.5.2.0151 |jstor=10.5749/natiindistudj.5.2.0151 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/natiindistudj.5.2.0151 |issn=2332-1261}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Nelson |first1=John William |title=Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast |journal=Ethnohistory |date=1 April 2019 |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=385–386 |doi=10.1215/00141801-7300132|s2cid=166967248 }}
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