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.
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, t...
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.
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, t...
"He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-century history." So begins Donna Merwick's fascinating tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of historical reconstruction, she introduces us to Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam and the long-forgotten world he inhabited in Holland's North American colony. Her powerful narrative will make readers care for this quiet and studious man, an "ordinary" settler for whom the clash of empires brought tragedy.
Like so many of his fellow countrymen,...
"He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-century history." So begins Donna Merwick's fascinati...
"Stuyvesant Bound" is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of culture in which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career and performed his responsibilities, ultimately reappraising the view of Stuyvesant long held by the majority of U.S. historians and commentators.
Borrowing its form from the genre of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century learned essays, "Stuyvesant Bound" invites the reader to step into a premodern worldview as Merwick considers Stuyvesant's role in history from the perspectives of duty,...
"Stuyvesant Bound" is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of ...
The Shame and the Sorrow Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland Donna Merwick "Merwick is unafraid of 'weighing up' the evidence carefully to recapture the 'moral murkiness' that dominated seventeenth-century Netherlanders' efforts. . . . A] beautifully constructed work."--Australasian Journal of American Studies "Merwick's book is certainly interesting, often beautifully written, but it is also a strong contribution to historical scholarship."--American Historical Review The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They...
The Shame and the Sorrow Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland Donna Merwick "Merwick is unafraid of 'weighing up' the evidence carefully to r...
