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• Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War ed. by Lisa Brooks and Kelly Wisecup
• Ryan Carr (bio)

This massive volume is strange, heterogeneous, and compelling. Published by the redoubtable Library of America to coincide with the four hundredth anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival in North America, Plymouth Colony was edited by Lisa Brooks and Kelly Wisecup, two leading scholars of the Native Northeast, who have assembled an anthology of primary sources that invites readers to rethink the volume's titular theme. The book's main editorial goal is announced in the subtitle of its introduction—"Plymouth in Patuxet: A Reorientation"—and it succeeds in this goal admirably, recontextualizing the history of the colony as a relatively "short-lived" episode transpiring within the homelands of the Wampanoag and other peoples living in the southeastern part of what the colonists called "New England" (xv, 1021).

While the book includes several well-known colonial texts (James Rosier's True Relation, Edward Winslow's Good News from New England, William Bradford's Of Plimoth Plantation, Thomas Morton's New English Canaan, and Mary Rowlandson's Sovereignty and Goodness of God among them), its most important scholarly contribution is to publish these alongside lesser-known writings that reflect Indigenous peoples' historical agency in Patuxet—the region surrounding Plymouth—from the early seventeenth century down to the present day. Some of these texts were cited in Brooks's recent study of King Philip's War, Our Beloved Kin (Yale UP, 2018), but are published here for the very first time in their entirety. Included are deeds and treaties, records of councils held by Native and settler leaders, creation [End Page 225] stories inspired by Wampanoag oral tradition, diplomatic correspondence written during King Philip's War, and later reflections by northeastern Native writers about the tumultuous events of the seventeenth century. Some Herring Pond Wampanoag writings concerning Plymouth are missing here, including those collected and translated in Ives Goddard and Kathleen Bragdon's Native Writings in Massachusett (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 185, 1988), which document some of the earliest experiences of Native American communities subject to Protestant missionization. It would be interesting to know why these were omitted, especially since they were written in a Native language; then again, Brooks and Wisecup make no claim to exhaustiveness, and all of their selections are worth reading. The volume ends with an essay by Wampanoag author and historian Linda Coombs diagnosing the "audacity" of colonial knowledge-production over the four hundred years since Plymouth's founding, "as if Native peoples are merely objects of study or discussion, rather than human beings with real knowledge of their own histories" (1096).

It would be difficult to overstate the richness of the texts gathered in Plymouth Colony, or the book's potential usefulness for researchers (including higher-level students) working on Plymouth, King Philip's War, or the Native communities around Massachusetts Bay. For any scholar whose work touches on these topics even tangentially, this volume will be indispensable. Having said that, the volume also has quirks that may befuddle some readers. For instance, roughly a third of the book is given over to reprinting William Bradford's Of Plimoth Plantation in its entirety. Yet this text receives relatively little notice in the introduction, and Bradford's text's Eurocentric, "great man" viewpoint arguably works against the volume's broader goal of recontextualizing Plymouth Colony as an event transpiring in a transnational Native space. Other readers may be confused about why so much of the book is devoted to King Philip's War, which receives just as much attention from the editors as Plymouth Colony per se. Of course, the histories of the war and the colony were very much intertwined in the pivotal 1670s, but the former stretched over a much broader geographical area than Plymouth Colony and involved many more Indigenous nations than the Massachusett-speaking peoples who figure so prominently in this volume...

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• 普利茅斯殖民地：从五月花号到菲利普国王战争的英国定居点和原住民抵抗的叙述。作者：丽莎·布鲁克斯和凯莉·怀塞卡普
• 瑞安·卡尔（个人简介）

这部庞大的书很奇怪、异质且引人注目。《普利茅斯殖民地》由令人敬畏的美国图书馆出版，恰逢五月花号抵达北美四百周年，由东北原住民的两位顶尖学者丽莎·布鲁克斯和凯利·威塞卡普编辑，他们收集了一本小学选集邀请读者重新思考该书主题的来源。这本书的主要编辑目标在其引言的副标题中宣布——“帕图西特的普利茅斯：重新定位”——它令人钦佩地成功实现了这一目标，将殖民地的历史重新背景化为发生在祖国内部的相对“短暂”的一段插曲。居住在殖民者所谓的“新英格兰”东南部的万帕诺亚格人和其他民族（xv，1021）。

虽然这本书包括几部著名的殖民文本（其中包括詹姆斯·罗西尔的《真实关系》、爱德华·温斯洛的《新英格兰的好消息》、威廉·布拉德福德的《普利茅斯种植园》、托马斯·莫顿的《新英国迦南》和玛丽·罗兰森的《上帝的主权和良善》），重要的学术贡献是将这些与鲜为人知的著作一起出版，这些著作反映了帕图西特（普利茅斯周边地区）土著人民从 17 世纪初至今的历史机构。其中一些文本在布鲁克斯最近对菲利普国王的战争，我们心爱的亲属（耶鲁大学，2018）的研究中被引用，但在这里首次全文发表。其中包括契约和条约、原住民和定居者领袖举行的会议记录、受万帕诺亚格口头传统启发而创作的故事[完第 225 页]、菲利普国王战争期间撰写的外交信函，以及后来东北原住民作家对十七世纪。这里缺少一些有关普利茅斯的鲱鱼池万帕诺亚格著作，包括艾夫斯·戈达德和凯瑟琳·布拉格登在马萨诸塞州的本土著作中收集和翻译的著作（《美国哲学会回忆录》，第 185 卷，1988 年），其中记录了一些土著人的最早经历美国社区受到新教传教的影响。知道为什么这些被省略将会很有趣，特别是因为它们是用母语编写的；话又说回来，布鲁克斯和威塞卡普并没有声称自己详尽无遗，他们的所有选集都值得一读。该书的结尾是万帕诺亚格作家兼历史学家琳达·库姆斯 (Linda Coombs) 的一篇文章，她对普利茅斯建国以来四百年来殖民知识生产的“大胆”进行了诊断，“就好像原住民只是研究或讨论的对象，而不是拥有知识的人类”。对自己历史的真正了解”（1096）。

很难夸大在普利茅斯殖民地收集的文本的丰富性，或者这本书对研究普利茅斯、菲利普国王战争或马萨诸塞湾周围原住民社区的研究人员（包括高年级学生）的潜在用处。对于任何在著作中触及这些主题（哪怕是无关紧要的）的学者来说，这本书都是不可或缺的。话虽如此，这本书也有一些怪癖，可能会让一些读者感到困惑。例如，这本书大约有三分之一的内容用于全文重印威廉·布拉德福德（William Bradford）的《普利茅斯种植园》（Of Plimoth Plantation） 。然而，这篇文章在引言中受到的关注相对较少，而且布拉德福德的文本以欧洲为中心的“伟人”观点可以说违背了该书的更广泛目标，即将普利茅斯殖民地重新背景化为发生在跨国本土空间的事件。其他读者可能会感到困惑，为什么这本书如此多的篇幅专门讨论菲利普国王的战争，编辑们对这场战争的关注与普利茅斯殖民地本身一样多。当然，在关键的 1670 年代，战争和殖民地的历史紧密相连，但前者的地理区域比普利茅斯殖民地要广泛得多，而且涉及的土著民族比马萨诸塞语民族要多得多。这卷...