Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail
Matthew R. Bahar
Abstract
From the pre-Contact period through the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763, the Wabanaki Indians of northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes confronted European colonialism by assimilating sailing technology and undertaking an extractive political project. Their campaign of sea and shore united their communities into a confederacy, alienated colonial neighbors, and stymied English and French imperialism. Afloat, Indian marine warriors commanded sailing ships and coordinated a barrage of punitive and plundering raids on the English fisheries of the northwest Atlantic. Ashore, Indian dip ... More
Keywords: Wabanaki, Atlantic world, pirate, Age of Sail, Acadia, Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, Mi’kmaq, Abenaki, Maine
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780190874247 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2019 | DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190874247.001.0001 |
