The Saltwater Frontier : Indians and the Contest for the American Coast / Andrew Lipman.
2015
KIE140 .L57 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
The Saltwater Frontier : Indians and the Contest for the American Coast / Andrew Lipman.
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015.
Description
xix, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-327) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KIE140 .L57 2015
Language
English
ISBN
0300207662 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780300207668 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780300207668 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
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