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Title: Unreadable controversy for its own sake
Review: The Preface makes it clear that the thesis -- and subtitle -- were chosen primarily for the sake of making a splash, not for necessarily being accurate. I have no idea whether the author made much of a case, since I discovered in the first few dozen pages, and then some selected sections following, that the book is abominably badly written, gives appallingly little actual information on the two major events of 1676 (leaving out huge amounts of information found in books where King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion are only part of the subject matter), and ends with a really bad index.
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