Storm of the sea : Indians and empires in the Atlantic's age of sail / Matthew R. Bahar
- Author
- Bahar, Matthew R.
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Physical Description
- xi, 287 pages ; 25 cm
- Contents
- Introduction : making, forgetting, remembering -- Chapter 1. The Indians' old sea, to 1500 -- Chapter 2. A new dawn on an old sea, 1500-1600 -- Chapter 3. New waves, new prospects: strategizing the sea, 1600-1677 -- Chapter 4. Glorious revolutions, 1678-1699 -- Chapter 5. Pieces of eight, pieces of empire, 1700-1713 -- Chapter 6. The golden age of piracy, 1714-1727 -- Chapter 7. Imperial breakdown and the crisis of confederacy, 1727-1763 -- Conclusion: what the bell tolls.
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 9780190874247 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0190874244 hardcover ; alkaline paper - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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