Bibliograph

The saltwater frontier, Indians and the contest for the American coast, Andrew Lipman

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Label

The saltwater frontier, Indians and the contest for the American coast, Andrew Lipman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The saltwater frontier

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

927296923

Responsibility statement

Andrew Lipman

Series statement

University Press Scholarship eBooks

Sub title

Indians and the contest for the American coast

Summary

This book presents 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, the text uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, it reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores.--, Provided by Publisher

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