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The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
Andrew Lipman
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Description for The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300227024
SKU
V9780300227024
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Ref
99-10
About Andrew Lipman
Andrew Lipman is assistant professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University. He lives in New York City.
Reviews for The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
Gripping . . . Lipman innovatively uses the sea to unite the histories of New York, New England and the region's native peoples by following the sailing ships and canoes along Long Island Sound up to Nantucket. -Kathleen DuVal, The Wall Street Journal Written in lucid and graceful prose . . . Lipman's impressive work is crucial reading. ... Read more