The saltwater frontier : Indians and the contest for the American coast /

"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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lipman, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Temas:
1600-1775
Indians of North America > New England > History.
Peuples autochtones > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Indians of North America.
New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
New England.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. October 29, 2012
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Text
  • Introduction
  • One. The Giants' Shore
  • Two. Watercraft and Watermen
  • Three. The Landless Borderland, 1600-1633
  • Four. Blood in the Water, 1634-1646
  • Five. Acts of Navigation, 1647-1674
  • Six. Sea Changes, 1675-1750
  • Epilogue: "What Need Is There to Speak of the Past?"
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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