Storm of the Sea
Indians and Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail
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2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780190874247 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780190874247 (ISBN)
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. 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.
From their earliest encounters with seaborne strangers from the east in the sixteenth century to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers across northeastern North America came together to undertake an immense political project. Their campaign of sea and shore, emboldened by a revolutionary technology, brought wealth, honor, and power to their confederacy while alienating colonial neighbors and thwarting English and French imperialism. Afloat, Indian hunter-warriors commanded fleets of sailing ships and coordinated punitive and plundering assaults on the heart of England's Atlantic economy. Ashore, Indian diplomats engaged in shrewd transatlantic negotiations with imperial officials of French Acadia and New England. Wabanaki communities had long looked to the sea for opportunities. By the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing it to achieve a Native dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries.
From their earliest encounters with seaborne strangers from the east in the sixteenth century to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers across northeastern North America came together to undertake an immense political project. Their campaign of sea and shore, emboldened by a revolutionary technology, brought wealth, honor, and power to their confederacy while alienating colonial neighbors and thwarting English and French imperialism. Afloat, Indian hunter-warriors commanded fleets of sailing ships and coordinated punitive and plundering assaults on the heart of England's Atlantic economy. Ashore, Indian diplomats engaged in shrewd transatlantic negotiations with imperial officials of French Acadia and New England. Wabanaki communities had long looked to the sea for opportunities. By the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing it to achieve a Native dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries.
Matthew R. Bahar is assistant professor of history at Oberlin College.
Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 13 hts |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780190874247 / 9780190874247 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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