Matthew R. Bahar

Storm of the Sea (eBook, PDF)

Indians and Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail

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Produktbeschreibung

Narratives of cultural encounter in colonial North America often contrast traditional Indian coastal-dwellers and intrepid European seafarers. In Storm of the Sea, Matthew R. Bahar instead tells the forgotten history of Indian pirates hijacking European sailing ships on the rough waters of the north Atlantic and of an Indian navy pressing British seamen into its ranks. From their earliest encounters with Europeans in the sixteenth century to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, the Wabanaki Indians of northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes fought to enhance their relationship with the ocean and the colonists it brought to their shores. This native maritime world clashed with the relentless efforts of Europeans to supplant it with one more amenable to their imperial designs. The Wabanaki fortified their longstanding dominion over the region's land- and seascape by co-opting European sailing technology and regularly plundering the waves of European ships, sailors, and cargo. Their campaign of sea and shore brought wealth, honor, and power to their confederacy while alienating colonial neighbors and thwarting English and French imperialism through devastating attacks. Their seaborne raids developed both a punitive and extractive character; they served at once as violent and honorable retribution for the destructive pressures of colonialism in Indian country and as a strategic enterprise to secure valuable plunder. Ashore, Indian diplomats engaged in shrewd transatlantic negotiations with imperial officials of French Acadia and New England. Positioning Indians into the Age of Sail, Storm of the Sea offers an original perspective on Native American, imperial, and Atlantic history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190874254
• Artikelnr.: 54554653

Autorenporträt

Matthew R. Bahar is assistant professor of history at Oberlin College.

Inhaltsangabe

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