A beautiful and fruitful place [[electronic resource] ] : selected Rensselaerwijck papers . Volume 2 / / edited by Elisabeth Paling Funk and Martha Dickinson Shattuck

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Disciplina: 974.702
• Soggetto geografico: New Netherland History; New York (State) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; New Netherlands History; New York (State) History
• Altri autori: FunkElisabeth Paling ShattuckMartha Dickinson
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Martha Dickinson Shattuck -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1988: "Domestic Life in New Netherland" -- Home is More Than a Roof: Concept of Private Space / Henk Zantkuijl Translated by Wendie Shaffer -- The Trades in the Village of Graft / A. Th. van Deursen Translated by Charles Forceville -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1989:"The Age of Leisler" / -- The Pro-Leislerian Farmer: A "Mad Rabble" or "Gentlemen Standing Up for Their Rights"? / Firth Haring Fabend -- Credit, Court, and New York City Merchants in the Age of Leisler / Dennis J. Maika -- Leisler's Pre-1689 Biography and Family Background / David William Voorhees -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1990:"New Netherland and the Frontier" -- De Suyt Rivier: New Netherland's Delaware / Charles T. Gehring -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1991:"The Persistence of the Dutch after 1664" / -- The Dutch Heritage in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / Elisabeth Paling Funk -- "Not Hasty to Change Old Habits for New" : The Dutch Colonial Legacy / Joyce D. Goodfriend -- From Mutual Will to Male Prerogative: The Dutch Family and Anglicization in Colonial New York / David E. Narrett -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1992:"The Dutch in the Age of Exploration" / -- Along the Spice Trails: Dutch Overseas Expansion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Cees Bakker -- Dutch Primacy in Shipbuilding: Implications of New Technology for Seventeenth-century Naval Architecture / Gerald A. De Weerdt -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1993: "Manor Life and Culture in the Hudson Valley" -- Dutch Foodways in the Hudson River Valley / Peter G. Rose -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1994:"Family History: Two Branches into New Netherland Research" -- A Marriage of Genealogy and History I / Peter R. Christoph -- A Marriage of Genealogy and History II / Peter R. Christoph -- Wringing Information from a Drowned Princess: Using the Notarial Records of Amsterdam for Historical Research / Charles T. Gehring -- Why New Netherland Genealogists and Historians Need Each Other An Editor's Perspective / Harry Macy -- New Netherlanders and Their European Ancestry: A Survey of the State of the Art in Research of the First Settlers" Origins / Nico PlompTranslated by Commerijn Plomp and Elisabeth Paling Funk -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1995:" "Neighbourlie Correspondencye" : Relations between New Netherland and New England" -- The Hartford Treaty: A European Perspective on a New World Conflict / Jaap A. Jacobs -- An Uneasy Alliance: The Dutch and English on Long Island / Martha Dickinson Shattuck -- Did Boundaries Really Matter in Seventeenth-Century North America -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1996: "The Staffs of Life: Bread and Beer" -- The Failure of West India Company Farming on the Island of Manhattan / Jan Folkerts -- From Herbs to Hops: Outlines of the Brewing Process in Medieval Europe / Vincent T. van Vilsteren -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1997: "The West India Company and the Atlantic World" / -- The WIC and the Reformed Church: Neglect or Concern? / W. Th. M. Frijhof -- Winds of Change: Colonization, Commerce, and Consolidationin the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World / W. W. Klooster -- A Monopoly Relinquished: The West India Company and the Atlantic Slave Trade / Joh. Postma -- Common Ground: Legislation, Government, Jurisprudence, and Law in the Dutch West Indian Colonies in the Seventeenth Century / J. A. Schiltkamp -- New Netherland and the Atlantic World: Comments and Reflections / Joyce D. Goodfriend.
• Sommario/riassunto: New Netherland's distinctive regional history as well as the colony's many relationships with Europe and the seventeenth-century Atlantic world are featured in the second collection of papers from the widely praised annual Rensselaerwijck Seminar. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic critique and offer the latest research on a dynamic range of topics: the age of exploration, domestic life in New Netherland, the history and significance of the West India Company, the complex era of Jacob Leisler, the southern frontier lands of the colony, relations with New England, Dutch foodways in the Hudson Valley and their use of beer, the endurance of the Dutch legacy into 19th century New York, and contemporary genealogical research on colonial Dutch ancestors.Cogent and informative, these papers are an indispensable source for better understanding the lives and legacies of the long ago New Netherland colony.
• Titolo autorizzato: A beautiful and fruitful place
• ISBN: 1-4384-3597-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813047703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Excelsior Editions