Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic’s Age of Sail

305 Pages·2019·22.18 MB·English

by  Matthew R. Bahar

Storm of the Sea

Storm of the Sea
Indians and Empires in the Atlantic’s Age of Sail
MATTHEW R. BAHAR
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Names: Bahar, Matthew R.
Title: Storm of the sea : Indians and empires in the Atlantic’s age of sail / Matthew R. Bahar.
Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Abenaki Indians—History. | Ocean and civilization. |
Indians—First contact with Europeans.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Making, Forgetting, Remembering 1
1 The Indians’ Old Sea, to 1500 17
2 A New Dawn on an Old Sea, 1500– 1600 39
3 New Waves, New Prospects: Strategizing the Sea, 1600–1 677 67
4 Glorious Revolutions, 1678– 1699 99
5 Pieces of Eight, Pieces of Empire, 1700–1 713 131
6 The Golden Age of Piracy, 1714– 1727 159
7 Imperial Breakdown and the Crisis of Confederacy,
1727– 1763 187
Conclusion: What the Bell Tolls 213
Notes 221
Select Bibliography 263
Index 279
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Since I began the journey here, many people have come and gone. Others have
been there all along. Each shaped this book in their own way, and I happily ran
up many debts because of it.
The time and thought Josh Piker generously provided to this project, from
start to finish, proved indispensable to its fruition. I can’t thank him enough
for the myriad ways he helped sharpen the book’s prose and argument, and for
modeling the very best of our profession. Cathy Kelly has also been there from
the beginning, offering inestimable encouragement at every step. In formal and
informal settings, I learned early on to value her insights on early America, aca-
demic publishing, and life in the academy. Jamie Hart’s expertise in Tudor and
Stuart England and steady support of my research interests enriched my explora-
tion of early modern Atlantic history. Gary Anderson, Paul Gilje, Sterling Evans,
and Karl Offen were also eager to share their time and thoughts. Fellow grad
students at OU, especially Dave Beyreis, Patrick Bottiger, and Matt Pearce, pro-
vided reliable sounding boards, entertaining diversions, and lasting friendships.
Several other scholars have given generously to this project with their
comments on various parts and iterations. I first presented my ideas to wider
audiences at a fellows roundtable at the American Antiquarian Society, organ-
ized by Paul Erickson, a brown- bag lunch talk at the Massachusetts Historical
Society, organized by Conrad Wright, and at Jace Weaver’s “Exploring the Red
Atlantic Conference” at the University of Georgia. At each, I was increasingly
heartened to learn from participants that I was on to something. The week- long
“Atlantic Geographies” workshop at the University of Miami, organized by Tim
Watson, helped me interrogate the explanatory power of an Atlantic framework
with junior scholars across the disciplines. Since these initial meetings, the proj-
ect began to assume its present form thanks to the feedback of Colin Calloway,
Kelly Chaves, Jeffers Lennox, Andrew Lipman, Daniel Mandell, Andy Parnaby,
Jenny Hale Pulsipher, John G. Reid, Joshua Reid, and Daniel Richter. The
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