Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time

Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of culture in which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career and performed his responsibilities, ultimately reappraising the view of Stuyvesant long held by the majority of U.S. historians and commentators.

Borrowing its form from the genre of eighteenth— and nineteenth—​century learned essays, Stuyvesant Bound invites the reader to step into a premodern wor...