<p>Selected by <i>Choice</i> magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title<br /><br />Land ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Pulsipher writes in <i>Subjects unto the Same King</i>, a book that cogently redefines the relationship between Indians and colonists in seventeenth-century New England. Rather, the story is much more complicated&mdash;and much more interesting. It is a tale of two divided cultures, but also of a host of individuals, groups, colonies, and nations, all of whom used the struggle between and within Indian and English communities to promote their own authority.<br /><br />As power within New England shifted, Indians appealed outside the region&mdash;to other Indian nations, competing European colonies, and the English crown itself&mdash;for aid in resisting the overbearing authority of such rapidly expanding societies as the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thus Indians were at the center&mdash;and not always on the losing end&mdash;of a contest for authority that spanned the Atlantic world. Beginning soon after the English settled in Plymouth, the power struggle would eventually spawn a devastating conflict&mdash;King Philip's War&mdash;and draw the intervention of the crown, resulting in a dramatic loss of authority for both Indians and colonists by century's end.<br /><br />Through exhaustive research, Jenny Hale Pulsipher has rewritten the accepted history of the Indian-English relationship in colonial New England, revealing it to be much more complex and nuanced than previously supposed.</p>