Revisiting New Netherland : perspectives on early Dutch America /

'The essays in this book offer a rich sampling of current scholarship on New Netherland and Dutch colonization in North America. The Introduction explains why the Dutch moment in American history has been overlooked or trivialized and calls attention to signs of the emergence of a new narrative...

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Other Authors: Goodfriend, Joyce D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 4.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction (Joyce D. Goodfriend)
  • NEW NETHERLAND AND HISTORICAL MEMORY
  • Inventing Memory: Picturing New Netherland in the Nineteenth Century (Annette Stott)
  • The Walloon and Huguenot Elements in New Netherland and Seventeenth-Century New York: Identity, History and Memory (Bertrand Van Ruymbeke)
  • NEW NETHERLAND IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
  • The Place of New Netherland in the West India Company's Grand Scheme (Wim Klooster)
  • New Sweden: An Interpretation (Richard Waldron)
  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEW NETHERLAND.
  • Securing the Burgher Right in New Amsterdam: The Struggle for Municipal Citizenship in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Dennis J. Maika)
  • Joris Dopzen's Hog and Other Stories: Artisans and the Making of New Amsterdam (Simon Middleton)
  • NEW NETHERLAND'S DIRECTORS: A NEW LOOK
  • Neglected Networks: Director Willem Kieft (1602-1647) and his Dutch Relatives (Willem Frijhoff)
  • Like Father, Like Son? The Early Years of Petrus Stuyvesant (Jaap Jacobs)
  • FAMILY RESEARCH AS A KEY TONEW NETHERLAND'S HISTORY
  • The State of New Netherland Genealogical Research-2001 (Harry Macy, Jr).
  • Sex and the City: Relations Between Men and Women in New Netherland (Firth Haring Fabend)
  • WRITING THE HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLANDIN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
  • A Survey of Documents Relating to the History of New Netherland (Charles Gehring)
  • Tying the Loose Ends Together: Putting New Netherland Studies on a Par with the Study of Other Regions (David William Voorhees)
  • Index.