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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828294403321

Titolo

Explorers, fortunes & love letters : a window on New Netherland / / edited by Martha Dickinson Shattuck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : New Netherland Institute, : Mount Ida Press, 2009

ISBN

1-4384-3004-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

New Netherland Institute

Altri autori (Persone)

ShattuckMartha Dickinson

Disciplina

974.7/102

Soggetti

Dutch - New York (State) - History - 17th century

New Netherland History

New York (State) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Explorers Fortunes & Love Letters""; ""C o n t e n t s""; ""I n t r o d u c t i o n""; ""Three Conversations""; ""Henry Hudson: New World, New World View""; ""The Native Dutch Experience in the Mohawk Valley""; ""Jews in New Netherland: An Atlantic Perspective""; ""Fortune in the New World: Jan Jansz Damen in America""; ""Barber Surgeons in New Netherland and Early New York""; ""Glimpses of Childhood in the Colony of New Netherland""; ""Bread: Staff of Dutch Life in the Old and in the New World""

""From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam: Washington Irving, The Dutch St. Nicholas, and the American Santa Claus""""Searching for True Love: Letters from Kiliaen van Rensselaer""; ""Family and Faction: The Dutch Roots of Colonial New York's Factional Politics""; ""Why New Netherland Matters""; ""C o n t r i b u t o r s""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""; ""Membership in the New Netherland Institute""