From their earliest encounters with seaborne strangers from the east in the sixteenth century to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers across northeastern North America came together to undertake an immense political project. Their campaign of sea and shore, emboldened by a revolutionary technology, brought wealth, honor, and power to their confederacy while alienating colonial neighbors and thwarting English and French imperialism. Afloat, Indian hunter-warriors commanded fleets of sailing ships and coordinated punitive and plundering assaults on the heart of England's Atlantic economy. Ashore, Indian diplomats engaged in shrewd transatlantic negotiations with imperial officials of French Acadia and New England. Wabanaki communities had long looked to the sea for opportunities. By the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing it to achieve a Native dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries.

About the Author
Matthew R. Bahar is assistant professor of history at Oberlin College.

Reviews
Bahar argues persuasively that understanding Indigenous peoples ability to maintain their homelands in this part of North America requires a deeper consideration of their maritime strength....Storm of the Sea should be read widely by anyone interested in Indigenous power, Atlantic history, and resistance to settler colonialism. * Jeffers Lenox, American Historical Review *
Bahar's book is a path-breaking achievement. In uncovering an often ignored story of Native American maritime involvement in the Atlantic Northeast, it provides an important and commendable contribution to the history of the region's indigenous peoples as well as Early American maritime history. Storm of the Sea is well researched, argued, and pursues an original argument. * Christoph Strobel, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Journal of Early American History *
A groundbreaking social, cultural, and political study of how the Wabanaki used traditional and European maritime skills and technologies to challenge European expansion. This innovative book is carefully researched, well written, engaging, and accessible to undergraduate and graduate students. * Kevin Dawson, Journal of American History *
A strikingly original history Storm of the Sea constitutes an important historiographical intervention...Indeed, Bahar has performed a service by highlighting issues that future scholars of the Northeast and of maritime history will need to confront in moving their fields forward....Bahar's writing is consistently felicitous, rendering often complicated material in jargon-free prose that will prove accessible to nonspecialists at all academic levels. * Neal Salisbury, William and Mary Quarterly *


Awards
Winner of Winner of the John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Maritime History of the North American Society for Oceanic History.



Book Information
ISBN 9780190874247
Author Matthew R. Bahar
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 163mm * 236mm * 31mm