Description: Analyzes the relationship between gender, religion, and warfare in seventeenth-century New England
Review Quotes:
"This is a very rich book with much that will appeal to scholars of Native Americans, gender, and colonial American history. Romero is to be complimented for so intricately weaving together gender religion, and warfare, and effectively showing their mutual dependence."--American Historical Review
"As a study of gender and colonialism in Anglo-Indian relations in seventeenth-century southern New England, Making War and Minting Christians is a must-read for any student of early American history."--The Historian"A nuanced and lively rereading of a time period that can often feel well traveled. As Romero convincingly shows, gendered language appeared everywhere, from the opening moments of English colonization of New England through King Philip's War and even beyond."--The Catholic Historical Review
"An important and welcome contribution to our understanding of the Indian-Anglo-American encounter in early New England."--Church History
"This [book] reminds us that the study of gender and colonialism--particularly within the context of masculinity--offers new ways to understand Indian-European encounters. The author's emphasis on religion deserves praise, in part because the spiritual understandings of Native Americans during the colonial era remain obscure."--Journal of American History
"This is a brief, readable, well-organized book, which would be accessible to undergraduate students, as well as to readers interested in the topic of masculinity in early Protestant colonialism."--Taylor Francis
"Making War and Minting Christians combines a history of gender, religion and warfare in early colonial America, showing how Native and Anglo ideas of manhood developed in the context of Christian evangelization and colonial expansion and providing college-level American history readers with a survey of Native and Anglo interactions and concepts of masculinity and spirituality. These concepts shaped the nature of warfare on both sides, and are key to understanding the evolution of relations between the two groups."--Midwest Book Review
"Romero is at his best when detailing specific instances of how . . . constructions of masculinity functioned."--New England Quarterly
"For several years, scholars have been calling for a book-length history of Indian gender in colonial New England, and R. Todd Romero has finally produced it. Making War and Minting Christians will not only appeal to professional scholars, but might very well appear on syllabi for undergraduate and graduate courses in colonial, American Indian, and American gender history."--David J. Silverman, author of Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America