Release of The Wars of the Lord

My new book, The Wars of the Lord: The Puritan Conquest of America’s First People (Oxford University Press) is out, and it has received positive reviews from the prestigious Kirkus Reviews and from Christianity Today.

Kirkus Reviews concludes, “Tuininga’s book does a good job of sorting out the complexities of one of America’s bloodiest, if little-known, conflicts. A capable study of cultures and ideologies in collision.” Read the full review here.

John Turner, at Christianity Today, writes, “The Wars of the Lord is a landmark history of 17th-century New England… Tuininga combines sharp analysis with a readable and even entertaining narrative… The Wars of the Lord is an antidote to contemporary political debates about the American past, which are not so much about the facts of history as about the relative importance placed on them… Tuininga demonstrates that the best response to these and related questions is simply to write good history.” Read Turner’s full review here.

I also did a podcast with Leah Jolly at Calvin Theological Seminary about some of the background to the book, which you can watch here.

And if you have not already purchased the book, which you can do as a Kindle or as a hard copy, order it at Amazon today!