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Author : Gajus Scheltema,Heleen Westerhuijs,Russell Shorto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0486486915
Author : Gajus Scheltema,Heleen Westerhuijs
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780486835525
This comprehensive guide to touring important sites of Dutch history also serves as an engrossing cultural and historical reference. Art and architecture, cooking, furniture and antiques, much more. Color photographs and maps.
Author : Gajus Scheltema,Heleen Westerhuijs,Russell Shorto
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0486486370
This comprehensive guide to touring important sites of Dutch history also serves as an engrossing cultural and historical reference. A variety of internationally renowned scholars explore such topics as Dutch art and architecture, Dutch cooking, immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, furniture and antiques, and much more. Color photographs and maps throughout. "An expansive guidebook." -- The New York Times.
Author : Gajus Scheltema,Heleen Westerhuijs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0486499278
Author : Russell Shorto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0486487016
Author : Roger G. Panetta
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080861811
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Dutch New York: the roots of Hudson Valley culture, organized by the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, June 13, 2009 through January 10, 2010"--T.p. verso.
Author : Theresa Anarumo,Maureen Seaberg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439663547
Take the ferry to this New York City borough and discover its colorful secrets, in a quirky history packed with facts and photos. Staten Island has a rich and fascinating cultural legacy that few people outside New York City's greenest borough know about. Chewing gum was invented on the island with the help of Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna. Country music legend Roy Clark got his start as a virtuoso guitar player on the Staten Island Ferry. Anna Leonowens, who worked with the king's children in the Court of Siam and was the basis for The King and I, came back to Staten Island to write about her experiences and run a school for children. Join native Staten Islanders Theresa Anarumo and Maureen Seaberg as they document the hidden history of the borough with these stories, and many more
Author : Russell Shorto
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400096336
In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island at the Center of the World, which has been hailed by The New York Times as “a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past.” The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.
Author : Christopher N. Matthews,Allison Manfra McGovern
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813055176
Historical and archaeological records show that racism and white supremacy defined the social fabric of the northeastern states as much as they did the Deep South. This collection of essays looks at both new sites and well-known areas to explore race, resistance, and supremacy in the region. With essays covering farm communities and cities from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century, the contributors examine the marginalization of minorities and use the material culture to illustrate the significance of race in understanding daily life. Drawing on historical resources and critical race theory, they highlight the context of race at these sites, noting the different experiences of various groups, such as African American and Native American communities. This cutting-edge research turns with new focus to the dynamics of race and racism in early American life and demonstrates the coming of age of racialization studies.
Author : Jaap Jacobs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0801475163
The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley region. In The Colony of New Netherland, Jaap Jacobs offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch colony on the Hudson from the first trading voyages in the 1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English. As Jacobs shows, New Netherland offers a distinctive example of economic colonization and in its social and religious profile represents a noteworthy divergence from the English colonization in North America. Centered around New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan, the colony extended north to present-day Schenectady, New York, east to central Connecticut, and south to the border shared by Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, leaving an indelible imprint on the culture, political geography, and language of the early modern mid-Atlantic region. Dutch colonists' vivid accounts of the land and people of the area shaped European perceptions of this bountiful land; their own activities had a lasting effect on land use and the flora and fauna of New York State, in particular, as well as on relations with the Native people with whom they traded. Sure to become readers' first reference to this crucial phase of American early colonial history, The Colony of New Netherland is a multifaceted and detailed depiction of life in the colony, from exploration and settlement through governance, trade, and agriculture. Jacobs gives a keen sense of the built environment and social relations of the Dutch colonists and closely examines the influence of the church and the social system adapted from that of the Dutch Republic. Although Jacobs focuses his narrative on the realities of quotidian existence in the colony, he considers that way of life in the broader context of the Dutch Atlantic and in comparison to other European settlements in North America.
Author : K. David Goss,A. A. Grishin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440864278
This book provides the essential, primary documentation needed to clarify, readjust, and, in some cases, destroy the many commonly held myths of America's colonial past. America's past is in many respects misunderstood and distorted. Even our secondary-level and college classrooms are not always capable of correcting the common misconceptions about Columbus and his discovery; Jamestown, John Smith, and Pocahontas; the Salem Witch Trials; and even the American Revolution. What is often lacking in texts on these events and people is a narrative with a solid underpinning of primary sources that clearly explains how misconceptions began, how they were perpetuated, and finally how they made their way into contemporary American popular culture. Colonial America: Facts and Fictions separates myth from reality. The authors explore 10 popular myths about the period, each of which is examined in terms of its origin and how it became ensconced in American memory. It uses primary sources to explain the evolution of the myths and to inform readers about what actually happened. This book explains all of this, and most importantly exposes the modern reader to those essential primary source documents that clarify the distortions and disprove the popular misconceptions of the past.
Author : Patrick Catel
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781515722342
"This book explores the people, places, and history of the New York Colony"--
Author : Michael Newman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614512127
New York City English is one of the most recognizable of US dialects, and research on it launched modern sociolinguistics. Yet the city’s speech has never before received a comprehensive description and analysis. In this book, Michael Newman examines the differences and similarities among the ways English is spoken by the extraordinarily diverse population living in the NY dialect region. He uses data from a variety of sources including older dialectological accounts, classic and recent variationist studies, and original research on speakers from around the dialect region. All levels of language are explored including phonology, morphosyntax, lexicon, and discourse along with a history of English in the region. But this book provides far more than a dialectological and historical inventory of linguistic features. The forms used by different groups of New Yorkers are discussed in terms of their complex social meanings. Furthermore, Newman illustrates the varied forms of sociolinguistic significance with examples from the personal experiences of a variety of New Yorkers and includes links to sound files on the publisher’s site and videos on YouTube. The result is a rigorous but accessible and compelling account of the English spoken in this great city.
Author : Jaap Jacobs,L. H. Roper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438450995
Essays by eleven prominent scholars provide the latest insights into the seventeenth-century history of the Hudson Valley and its environs. This book provides an in-depth introduction to the issues involved in the expansion of European interests to the Hudson River Valley, the cultural interaction that took place there, and the colonization of the region. Written in accessible language by leading scholars, these essays incorporate the latest historical insights as they explore the new world in which American Indians and Europeans interacted, the settlement of the Dutch colony that ensued from the exploration of the Hudson River, and the development of imperial and other networks which came to incorporate the Hudson Valley. Jaap Jacobs is Honorary Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the author of many books, including The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America. L. H. Roper is Professor of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His books include The English Empire in America, 1602–1658: Beyond Jamestown.
Author : Thomas A. Janvier
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486805702
This charming account of Manhattan's history extends from the arrival of Dutch colonists in the early 1600s through the late nineteenth century. Intriguing details, dozens of illustrations and maps, and historian Thomas A. Janvier's wry sense of humor combine for a vivid portrait of the metropolis in its early years. Sketches, diary excerpts, and scenes from daily life recapture some of the city's long-vanished features. Ranging all over the island, the survey explores the farms and waterways of Greenwich Village, the Battery's fortifications, and shacks, barns, and mansions of the Upper East and West sides. Thirteen maps chronicle the city's expansion, and etchings, line drawings, and other images depict Fort Amsterdam, Chelsea's gates and doorways, and other public and private buildings. Written in an engaging, easy-to-read style, this fascinating book will enchant history buffs, students of urban planning and architecture, and all lovers of New York stories.