This book reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth-century New York took hold of the New World. As the author reminds us, the Dutch understood themselves to be republican, urban, mobile, mercantile, and amphibious; in short, properly Dutch. She shows how the Dutch possessed the land, traded over it, surrendered it to the English, and then lived out their lives balancing a "gaze" that the conquerors had for land against their own.
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"...fascinating and highly original; it affords a fresh view of a timeworn subject by introducing anthropological thought into the apparatus of historiography." William N. Fenton, Ethnohistory
"Professor Merwick, of the University of Melbourne (Australia), has written a thought-provoking study of 17th and 18th century Albany." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
"Professor Merwick, of the University of Melbourne (Australia), has written a thought-provoking study of 17th and 18th century Albany." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
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In Possessing Albany, 1630-1710, Donna Merwick reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth century New York took hold of the New World. As Merwick reminds us, the Dutch understood themselves to be republican, urban, mobile, mercantile, and amphibious; in short, properly Dutch.
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In 1884, Arthur James Weise described the settlement of Albany in the early seventeenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
halve maen, possessing the land, beaver trade, court recorder, trading season Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Amsterdam, New Netherland, New England, Fort Orange, North America, Arent van Curler, City Records, Jan Baptiste, Low Countries, Manhattan Island, Long Island, New World, Philip Pietersz Schuyler, Lake Champlain, Robert Livingston, Contesting the Land, Abraham Staats, Patroon's Domain, Rut Jacobsz, United Provinces, History of the City of Albany, Livingston Indian Records, Mohawk River, States General New!
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In 1884, Arthur James Weise described the settlement of Albany in the early seventeenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
halve maen, possessing the land, beaver trade, court recorder, trading season Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Amsterdam, New Netherland, New England, Fort Orange, North America, Arent van Curler, City Records, Jan Baptiste, Low Countries, Manhattan Island, Long Island, New World, Philip Pietersz Schuyler, Lake Champlain, Robert Livingston, Contesting the Land, Abraham Staats, Patroon's Domain, Rut Jacobsz, United Provinces, History of the City of Albany, Livingston Indian Records, Mohawk River, States General New!
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- The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies by Francis Jennings on page 70, page 132, and page 187
- The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study by R. Cole Harris on page 131, page 215, and page 281
- Expansion and Reaction (Comparative Studies in Overseas History) by H.L. Wesseling on page 33, page 144, and page 220
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