Death of a Notary : : Conquest and Change in Colonial New York / / Donna Merwick.
"He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-century history." So begins Donna Merwick's fascinating tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of historical reconstruction, she in...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 33 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Epitaph
- 1. "New Albanij"
- 2. Patria
- 3. The Manhatans
- 4. Beverwijck
- 5. Beverwijck: The Final Years
- 6. Albany
- 7. "Nieuw Albanij in America"
- 8. The Costs of Conquest
- Notes and Reflections
- References
- Index