Revisiting New Netherland : : perspectives on early Dutch America / / edited by Joyce D. Goodfriend.

• Superior document: The Atlantic world, v. 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Goodfriend, Joyce D.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Notes: Based on papers presented at a conference held in New York City in October 2001.

The essays in this book offer a rich sampling of current scholarship on New Netherland and Dutch colonization in North America. The Introduction explains why the Dutch moment in American history has been overlooked or trivialized and calls attention to signs of the emergence of a new narrative of American beginnings that gives due weight to the imprint of Dutch settlement in America. The essays are organized around six major themes: New Netherland and Historical Memory, New Netherland in the Atlantic World, The Political Economy of New Netherland, New Netherland's Directors: A New Look, Family Research as a key to New Netherland's History, and Writing the History of New Netherland in the Twenty-first Century. This volume holds great interest for historians of early America and of Dutch colonization. Contributors include: Willem Frijhoff, Charles Th. Gehring, Joyce D. Goodfriend, Firth Haring Fabend, Jaap Jacobs, Wim Klooster, Harry Macy, Jr., Dennis J. Maika, Simon Middleton, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Annette Stott, David William Voorhees, and Richard Waldron.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction, Joyce D. Goodfriend -- NEW NETHERLAND AND HISTORICAL MEMORY -- 1. Inventing Memory: Picturing New Netherland in the Nineteenth Century, Annette Stott -- 2. The Walloon and Huguenot Elements in New Netherland and Seventeenth-Century New York: Identity, History and Memory, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- NEW NETHERLAND IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD -- 3. The Place of New Netherland in the West India Company's Grand Scheme, Wim Klooster -- 4. New Sweden: An Interpretation, Richard Waldron -- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEW NETHERLAND -- 5. Securing the Burgher Right in New Amsterdam: The Struggle for Municipal Citizenship in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World, Dennis J. Maika -- 6. Joris Dopzen's Hog and Other Stories: Artisans and the Making of New Amsterdam, Simon Middleton -- NEW NETHERLAND'S DIRECTORS: A NEW LOOK -- 7. Neglected Networks: Director Willem Kieft (1602-1647) and his Dutch Relatives, Willem Frijhoff -- 8. Like Father, Like Son? The Early Years of Petrus Stuyvesant, Jaap Jacobs -- FAMILY RESEARCH AS A KEY TO NEW NETHERLAND'S HISTORY -- 9. The State of New Netherland Genealogical Research-2001, Harry Macy, Jr. -- 10. Sex and the City: Relations Between Men and Women in New Netherland, Firth Haring Fabend -- WRITING THE HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- 11. A Survey of Documents Relating to the History of New Netherland, Charles Gehring -- 12. Tying the Loose Ends Together: Putting New Netherland Studies on a Par with the Study of Other Regions, David William Voorhees -- Index.