Ann M. Little is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University.

"This innovative and thought-provoking analysis of why New Englanders and Indians went to war, and how they interpreted their experiences in war, effectively reshapes our perspectives of culture and society on the early New England frontier."-Journal of American History "A clearly written, cogently argued book on early American cultural encounters. Highly recommended."-Choice "A creative and fascinating tour-de-force. Sweeping across two centuries of conflict in the colonial Northeast, from the Pequot War of 1636-37 to the Seven Years' War of the mid-eighteenth century, Little shows how northeastern Native peoples, English colonists, and French settlers interpreted each other's actions through the lens of their own gendered sense of proper social order. The book makes a very persuasive case for gender being central to any study of war that historians might undertake, and the writing flows elegantly from insight to insight."-Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut

• Introduction: Onward Christian Soldiers, 1678Chapter 1. "You dare not fight, you are all one like women": The Contest of Masculinities in the Seventeenth CenturyChapter 2. "What are you an Indian or an English-man?" Cultural Cross-Dressing in the Northeastern BorderlandsChapter 3. "Insolent" Squaws and "Unreasonable" Masters: Indian Captivity and Family LifeChapter 4. "A Jesuit will ruin you Body & Soul!" Daughters of New England in CanadaChapter 5. "Who will be Masters of America The French or the English?" Manhood and Imperial Warfare in the Eighteenth CenturyEpilogue: On the Plains of AbrahamNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Ann M. Little is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University.

"This innovative and thought-provoking analysis of why New Englanders and Indians went to war, and how they interpreted their experiences in war, effectively reshapes our perspectives of culture and society on the early New England frontier."-Journal of American History "A clearly written, cogently argued book on early American cultural encounters. Highly recommended."-Choice "A creative and fascinating tour-de-force. Sweeping across two centuries of conflict in the colonial Northeast, from the Pequot War of 1636-37 to the Seven Years' War of the mid-eighteenth century, Little shows how northeastern Native peoples, English colonists, and French settlers interpreted each other's actions through the lens of their own gendered sense of proper social order. The book makes a very persuasive case for gender being central to any study of war that historians might undertake, and the writing flows elegantly from insight to insight."-Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut

• Introduction: Onward Christian Soldiers, 1678Chapter 1. "You dare not fight, you are all one like women": The Contest of Masculinities in the Seventeenth CenturyChapter 2. "What are you an Indian or an English-man?" Cultural Cross-Dressing in the Northeastern BorderlandsChapter 3. "Insolent" Squaws and "Unreasonable" Masters: Indian Captivity and Family LifeChapter 4. "A Jesuit will ruin you Body & Soul!" Daughters of New England in CanadaChapter 5. "Who will be Masters of America The French or the English?" Manhood and Imperial Warfare in the Eighteenth CenturyEpilogue: On the Plains of AbrahamNotesIndexAcknowledgments