wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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Revisiting New New Netherland: Perspectives on Early Dutch America
ISBN: 9789004145078 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 of American beginnings that gives due weight to the imprint of Dutch settlement in America. The essays are organized around six major themes: New Netherland and Historical Memory, New Netherland in the Atlantic World, The Political Economy of New Netherland, New Netherland's Directors: A New Look,...
The essays in this book offer a rich sampling of current scholarship on New Netherland and Dutch colonization in North America. The Introduction expla...
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576,09 zł |
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Who Should Rule at Home?: Confronting the Elite in British New York City
ISBN: 9780801451270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from invincible and that the degree of cultural power they held has been exaggerated. The urban elite experienced challenges to its cultural authority at different times, from different groups, and in a variety of settings. Goodfriend illuminates the conflicts that pitted the privileged... In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New Y... |
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585,49 zł |
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Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730
ISBN: 9780691037875 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. Joyce Goodfriend paints a vivid portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America and showing how colonial settlers of varying backgrounds worked out a basis for coexistence. She argues that, contrary to the prevalent notion of rapid Anglicization, ethnicity proved an enduring force in this small urban society well into... From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scotti... |
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346,78 zł |
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Who Should Rule at Home?: Confronting the Elite in British New York City
ISBN: 9781501764578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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136,23 zł |
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Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America 1609-2009
ISBN: 9789004163683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume investigates the place of Dutch history and Dutch-derived culture in America over the last four centuries. It considers how the Dutch have fared in America, and it explores how American conceptions of Dutchness have developed, from Henry Hudson's historic voyage to Manhattan in 1609 through the rise of Dutch design at the turn of the twenty-first century. Essays probe a rich array of topics: Dutch themes in American arts and letters; the place of Dutch paintings in American collections; shifting American interests in Dutch art, literature, and architecture; the experience of Dutch...
This volume investigates the place of Dutch history and Dutch-derived culture in America over the last four centuries. It considers how the Dutch have...
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610,49 zł |