The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America

The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-57181-672-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Reihe: European Expansion & Global Interaction

Employing a frontier framework, this book traces intercultural relations in the lower Hudson River valley of early seventeenth-century New Netherland. It explores the interaction between the Dutch and the Munsee Indians and considers how they, and individuals within each group, interacted, focusing in particular on how the changing colonial landscape affected their cultural encounter and Munsee cultural development. At each stage of European colonization - first contact, trade, and settlement - the Munsees faced evolving and changing challenges.

Understanding culture in terms of worldview and societal structures, this volume identifies ways in which Munsee society changed in an effort to adjust to the new intercultural relations and looks at the ways the Munsees maintained aspects of their own culture and resisted any imposition of Dutch societal structures and sovereignty over them. In addition, the book includes a suggestive afterword in which the author applies his frontier framework to Dutch-indigenous relations in the Cape colony.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Otto, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Illustrations

List of Maps

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Text

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Dutch-Munsee Frontier

Chapter 1. First Contact, 1524-1609

Chapter 2. Trade, 1610-1623

Chapter 3. Trade and Settlement, 1624-1638

Chapter 4. Settlement and Warfare, 1639-1647

Chapter 5. Warfare and Diplomacy, 1648-1664

Conclusion: The Closing of the Frontier and Beyond

Afterword: First Contact, Trade, and Settlement in the Cape Colony, 1487-1713

Sources Consulted

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Otto, Paul
Paul Otto is Associate Professor of History at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon where he teaches early American, Latin American, and southern African history. He earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1995 and, as a Fulbright Fellow, undertook research in the Netherlands.