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The Saltwater Frontier - Indians and the Contest for the American Coast (Hardcover)
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The Saltwater Frontier - Indians and the Contest for the American Coast (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Narrative History
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Discovery Miles 5 680
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A fascinating new perspective on Native seafaring and colonial
violence in the seventeenth-century American Northeast 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. Lipman's book
"successfully redirects the way we look at a familiar history"
(Neal Salisbury, Smith College). Extensively researched and
elegantly written, this latest addition to Yale's
seventeenth-century American history list brings the early years of
New England and New York vividly to life.
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