New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America
Jaap Jacobs, "New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America"
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2004-12 | ISBN 9004129065 | PDF | 559 pages | 4.8 MB
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2004-12 | ISBN 9004129065 | PDF | 559 pages | 4.8 MB
This volume covers the history of the Dutch colony New Netherland on the North American continent. Based on extensive research of archival material on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, much of which has not been previously used, this work provides the most complete overview yet of a colony that has been generally neglected by historians. The chapters deal with themes such as patterns of immigration, government and justice, economy, religion, social structure, material culture, and mentality of the colonists. This book will be very useful not just for students of Dutch colonial history, but also for scholars in early American history.
Readership: All those interested in the history of New York (both City and State), American colonial history in the seventeenth century, Dutch colonial history.