Storm of the sea : Indians and empires in the Atlantic's age of sail

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Storm of the sea : Indians and empires in the Atlantic's age of sail

Matthew R. Bahar

Oxford University Press, c2019

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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

Bibliography: p. 263-277

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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.

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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

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