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.

Indians of North America.

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

New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 339 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A fascinating new perspective on Native seafaring and colonial violence in the seventeenth-century American Northeast 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. Lipman's book "successfully redirects the way we look at a familiar history" (Neal Salisbury, Smith College). Extensively researched and elegantly written, this latest addition to Yale's seventeenth-century American history list brings the early years of New England and New York vividly to life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue: October 29, 2012

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Text

Introduction

1. The Giants' Shore

2. Watercraft and Watermen

3. The Landless Borderland, 1600-1633

4. Blood in the Water, 1634-1646

5. Acts of Navigation, 1647-1674

6. Sea Changes, 1675-1750

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

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21669-6

OCLC:

927296923