The Saltwater Frontier : Indians and the Contest for the American Coast Andrew Lipman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipman, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--New England--History.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

xix, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]

Summary:

"Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "frontier" between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region's Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, Lipman uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, he reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Prologue: October 29, 2012

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Text

Introduction

One: The Giants' Shore

Two: Watercraft and Watermen

Three: The Landless Borderland, 1600-1633

Four: Blood in the Water, 1634-1646

Five: Acts of Navigation, 1647-1674

Six: Sea Changes, 1675-1750

Epilogue: "What Need Is There to Speak of the Past?"

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Indian Rights Association Complimentary Collection

ISBN:

0300207662

9780300207668

9780300227024

0300227027

OCLC:

906878079