New Netherland

A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-12906-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: The Atlantic World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobs, Jaap

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Glossary
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. ‘A Blessed Country, where Milk and Honey Flow’
2. ‘The Peopling of Such Empty and Unfurnished Lands’
3. ‘The Exercise of Justice and Government’
4. ‘The Trade, that Really Concerns us’
5. ‘God’s Church and Honor Should be Cared for’
6. ‘Each According to his Condition, State, and Circumstances’
7. ‘In Such a Far Distant Country, Separated from all the Friends’

Conclusion

Appendixes

List of Archival Sources
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jaap Jacobs, Ph.D. 1999 Leiden University, is postdoc researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Dutch Golden Age of the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the Dutch colony New Netherland and is currently preparing a biography of Petrus Stuyvesant.