Jill Lepore is Professor of History at Harvard University and the author of The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity, which won both the Bancroft Prize and Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
Preface | xi | ||
PROLOGUE The Plot | 5 | (10) | |
CHAPTER ONE Ice | 15 | (25) | |
CHAPTER TWO Fire | 40 | (24) | |
CHAPTER THREE Stone | 64 | (29) | |
CHAPTER FOUR Paper | 93 | (36) | |
CHAPTER FIVE Water | 129 | (41) | |
CHAPTER SIX Blood | 170 | (28) | |
CHAPTER SEVEN Ink | 198 | (23) | |
EPILOGUE Dust | 221 | (12) | |
Appendices | 233 | (42) | |
Source Notes and Abbreviations | 275 | (4) | |
Notes | 279 | (30) | |
Acknowledgments | 309 | (2) | |
Index | 311 |
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