Jaap Jacobs

The Colony of New Netherland

A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780801475160
• ISBN-10: 0801475163
• Artikelnr.: 26551734

Autorenporträt

Jaap Jacobs (Ph.D. Leiden University) is Lecturer in History at Harvard University. He has been Visiting Professor of Early American History at Ohio University and Quinn Foundation Senior Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Quinn Foundation Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "A Blessed Country, Where Milk and Honey Flow"
1. Reconnaissance and Exploration
2. Population and Immigration
3. Authority, Government, and Justice
4. Trade, Agriculture, and Artisans
5. The Reformed Church and the Others
6. Burghers and Status
7. Living in a Colony
Epilogue: "It has pleased the Lord [to ordain] that we must learn
English"List of Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index