{"product_id":"rustic-warriors-warfare-and-the-provincial-soldier-on-the-new-england-frontier-16891748-warfare-and-culture-9780814722701","title":"Rustic Warriors: Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New England Frontier  1689-1748 (Warfare and Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers  or British white settlers  in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined  unprofessional  and incompetent: General John Forbes called them a gathering from the scum of the worst people.  Taking issue with historians who have criticized provincial soldiers battlefield style  strategy  and conduct  Steven Eames demonstrates that what developed in early New England was in fact a unique way of war that selectively blended elements of European military strategy  frontier fighting  and native American warfare. This new form of warfare responded to and influenced the particular challenges  terrain  and demography of early New England. Drawing upon a wealth of primary materials on King Williams War  Queen Annes War  Dummers War  and King Georges War  Eames offers a bottom-up view of how war was conducted and how war was experienced in this particular period and place. Throughout Rustic Warriors  he uses early New England culture as a staging ground from which to better understand the ways in which New Englanders waged war  as well as to provide a fuller picture of the differences between provincial  French  and Native American approaches to war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666320777269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0814722709","price":121.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814722701.jpg?v=1782428089","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rustic-warriors-warfare-and-the-provincial-soldier-on-the-new-england-frontier-16891748-warfare-and-culture-9780814722701","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}