Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences

Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences

by Donna Merwick
ISBN-10:
0521533244
ISBN-13:
9780521533249
Pub. Date:
02/13/2003
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521533244
ISBN-13:
9780521533249
Pub. Date:
02/13/2003
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences

Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences

by Donna Merwick
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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521533249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 02/13/2003
Series: Dutch and English Experiences
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Possessing the land, 1630–1652; 2. Trading on the land, 1652–1664; 3. Surrendering the land, 1664; 4. Occupancy of land under English rule, 1674–1690; 5. Contesting the land, 1689–1691; 6. A military presence on the land, 1690–1710; 7. Reflections on looking at the land; Index.
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