The Saltwater Frontier
Subtitle: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
By: Andrew Lipman
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780300207668
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Kolonisation; Engländer; Indianer; Indians of North America; Niederländer; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: October 29, 2012; title: Acknowledgments; title: A Note on the Text; title: Introduction; title: One: The Giants' Shore; title: Two: Watercraft and Watermen; title: Three: The Landless Borderland, 1600-1633; title: Four: Blood in the Water, 1634-1646; title: Five: Acts of Navigation, 1647-1674; title: Six: Sea Changes, 1675-1750; title: Epilogue: "What Need Is There to Speak of the Past?"; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Notes; title: Index.