Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences

ISBN-13: 9780521533249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 328 str.

Donna Merwick

Opis

This book reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth-century New York took hold of the New World. As the author reminds us, the Dutch understood themselves to be republican, urban, mobile, mercantile, and amphibious; in short, properly Dutch. She shows how the Dutch possessed the land, traded over it, surrendered it to the English, and then lived out their lives balancing a "gaze" that the conquerors had for land against their own.