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. From earliest encounters to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers came t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bahar, Matthew R. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Abenaki Indians > History. Ocean and civilization. Indians > First contact with Europeans.

Table of Contents:

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.