Storm of the sea : Indians and empires in the Atlantic's age of sail / Matthew R. Bahar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bahar, Matthew R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abenaki Indians--History.

Abenaki Indians.

Ocean and civilization.

Indigenous peoples--First contact with other peoples.

Indigenous peoples.

Indians.

Indians--First contact with other peoples.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Wabanaki communities across northeastern North America had been looking to the sea for generations before strangers from the east began arriving there in the sixteenth century. From earliest encounters to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers came together to command fleets of sailing ships and engage in strategic diplomacy, thwarting English and French imperialism. Storm of the Sea narrates how by the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing the ocean to achieve a dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : making, forgetting, remembering

The Indians' old sea, to 1500

A new dawn on an old sea, 1500-1600

New waves, new prospects : strategizing the sea, 1600-1677

Glorious revolutions, 1678-1699

Pieces of eight, pieces of empire, 1700-1713

The golden age of piracy, 1714-1727

Imperial breakdown and the crisis of confederacy, 1727-1763

Conclusion : what the bell tolls.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-277) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bahar, Matthew R. Storm of the sea.

ISBN:

9780190874247

0190874244

OCLC:

1039112293