Author: Horace Palmer BeckPublisher: Mystic, Conn. : Marine Historical Association
ISBN:
Category : Indian sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The American Indian as a Sea-fighter in Colonial Times
Author: Horace Palmer BeckPublisher: Mystic, Conn. : Marine Historical Association
ISBN:
Category : Indian sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Way of the Ship
Author: Alex RolandPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470136006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
"The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both oceanic shipping and domestics shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.
The Saltwater Frontier
Author: Andrew LipmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300207662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"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 World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, Lipman uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, he reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores." -- Publisher's description.
When the Island Had Fish
Author: Janna Malamud SmithPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1684750792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
When the Island had Fish is the story of a tiny island, Vinalhaven Maine, that offers a close look at the significant history of Maine fishing particularly, but also offers perspective on the impact of industrialized fishing on small fishing villages all over the United States and the world. Vinalhaven’s documented habitation by fishermen dates back over 5000 years, and still today lobstering is the primary source of employment for its 1100 year round residents; islanders currently harvest lobsters at a rate almost unrivaled nationally. The book investigates the changing meanings of the notion of a “fishing community” and of community members changing relationships with the natural world and with international commerce. Through this broader lens, it sheds light on the way that species, including humans, are impacted by – and at moments contribute to - climate change, environmental degradation, and sustainable and unsustainable uses of natural resources. When the Island had Fish also provides a meditation on America’s past and future. Vinalhaven’s fishing history is in every way America’s history. It’s a story of habitations by native peoples and European-American settlers, their use of natural resources, their communities and kin, and their efforts to find ways to live in a harsh environment. Anyone interested in creating a viable collective future will learn from reading about the Penobscot Bay fisheries and fishermen, and about Vinalhaven’s citizens’ expansive knowledge of craft, husbandry, self-governance and community independence, and interdependence.
1885 and After
Author: F. L. BarronPublisher: University of Regina Press
ISBN: 9780889770423
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"The papers contained in this volume were presented originally at the "1885 and After" Conference, held at the University of Saskatchewan ..."--P. [vii]
The American Discovery of Europe
Author: Jack D. ForbesPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book paints a clear picture of the diverse and complex societies that constituted the Americas before 1492 and reveals the surprising Native American involvements in maritime trade and exploration. Starting with an encounter by Columbus himself with mysterious people who had apparently been carried across the Atlantic on favorable currents, Jack D. Forbes proceeds to explore the seagoing expertise of early Americans, theories of ancient migrations, the evidence for human origins in the Americas, and other early visitors coming from Europe to America, including the Norse. The provocative, extensively documented, and heartfelt conclusions of The American Discovery of Europe present an open challenge to received historical wisdom.
A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region
Author: William A. BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
The Sea Rover's Practice
Author: Benerson LittlePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1574889117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Describes in detail how privateers, buccaneers, and pirates plied their trade during the piracy's "golden age."
American Passage
Author: Katherine GrandjeanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674289919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Katherine Grandjean shows that the English conquest of New England was not just a matter of consuming territory, of transforming woods into farms. It entailed a struggle to control the flow of information—who could travel where, what news could be sent, over which routes winding through the woods along the early American communications frontier.
Storm of the Sea
Author: Matthew R. BaharPublisher:
ISBN: 0190874244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Wabanaki communities across northeastern North America had been looking to the sea for generations before strangers from the east began arriving there in the sixteenth century. Storm of the Sea narrates how by the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing the ocean to achieve a dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries.