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

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 achie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bahar, Matthew R. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2018.
Subjects:	Abenaki Indians > History. Ocean and civilization. Indians > First contact with other peoples. Abénaquis > Histoire. Mer et civilisation. Peuples autochtones > Premiers contacts avec d'autres peuples. Pre-Confederation (to 1867) Canada. HISTORY. Native American. Americas (North. Maritime History & Piracy. Abenaki Indians Indians > First contact with other peoples Ocean and civilization Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Cover; Storm of the Sea; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Making, Forgetting, Remembering; 1 The Indians' Old Sea, to 1500; 2 A New Dawn on an Old Sea, 1500-1600; 3 New Waves, New Prospects: Strategizing the Sea, 1600-1677; 4 Glorious Revolutions, 1678-1699; 5 Pieces of Eight, Pieces of Empire, 1700-1713; 6 The Golden Age of Piracy, 1714-1727; 7 Imperial Breakdown and the Crisis of Confederacy, 1727-1763; Conclusion: What the Bell Tolls; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index