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