Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America

The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically and religiously mixed societies on earth. The European groups were threatened by the tensions and fears between them and only through Indian-hating could they find common ground. Unearthing the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Peter Silver offers us a picture of eighteenth-century America with insights into the forces that continue to shape the US.