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