New Netherland S Founding

Author : George L. Procter-Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501718007

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Religion and Trade in New Netherland by George L. Procter-Smith Pdf

"The Dutch colony of New Netherland in the seventeenth century enjoyed a greater diversity of religious beliefs than any of the English colonies in America at the time, except possibly Rhode Island. George L. Procter-Smith has investigated the background and reasons for this religious diversity and toleration despite the legal establishment of the Dutch Reformed Church. All colonies have to be understood in terms of their mother country; but, Procter-Smith insists, the European background is especially important in the study of New Netherland. He devotes about half the book to the religious situation in the Netherlands and the de facto toleration that existed despite the state church. "The Dutch colony in America was founded for trade, not for religious reasons which were so prominent in the neighboring English colonies. As the Dutch directors of the West India Company, the colony's proprietor, tried to recruit settlers, they realized that intolerance and religious persecution would keep many prospective settlers away. Consequently, they paid lip service to the Dutch Reformed establishment but in practice allowed dissenters to practice their religion in private. Procter-Smith has written a clear, persuasive account of religion and politics, as shaped by the Dutch trading interests, in both Europe and New Netherland."—Review for Religious: A Journal of Catholic Spirituality

Author : Evan Haefeli
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208955

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New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty by Evan Haefeli Pdf

The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion." For early American historians this statement, unique in the world at its time, lies at the root of American pluralism. New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty offers a new reading of the way tolerance operated in colonial America. Using sources in several languages and looking at laws and ideas as well as their enforcement and resistance, Evan Haefeli shows that, although tolerance as a general principle was respected in the colony, there was a pronounced struggle against it in practice. Crucial to the fate of New Netherland were the changing religious and political dynamics within the English empire. In the end, Haefeli argues, the most crucial factor in laying the groundwork for religious tolerance in colonial America was less what the Dutch did than their loss of the region to the English at a moment when the English were unusually open to religious tolerance. This legacy, often overlooked, turns out to be critical to the history of American religious diversity. By setting Dutch America within its broader imperial context, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty offers a comprehensive and nuanced history of a conflict integral to the histories of the Dutch republic, early America, and religious tolerance.

Author : New Netherland Institute
Publisher : Mount Ida Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438430041

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Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters by New Netherland Institute Pdf

Drawing on the latest research, leading scholars shed new light on the culture, society, and legacy of the New Netherland colony.

Author : Craig Lukezic,John P. McCarthy
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057897

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The Archaeology of New Netherland by Craig Lukezic,John P. McCarthy Pdf

The Archaeology of New Netherland illuminates the influence of the Dutch empire in North America, assembling evidence from seventeenth-century settlements located in present-day New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Archaeological data from this important early colony has often been overlooked because it lies underneath major urban and industrial regions, and this collection makes a wealth of information widely available for the first time. Contributors to this volume begin by discussing the global context of Dutch colonization and reviewing typical Dutch material culture of the time as seen in ceramics from Amsterdam households. Next, they focus on communities and activities at colonial sites such as forts, trading stations, drinking houses, and farms. The essays examine the agency and impact of Indigenous people and enslaved Africans, particularly women, in the society of New Netherland, and they trace interactions between Dutch settlers and Europeans from other colonies including New Sweden. The volume also features landmark studies of cooking pots, marbles, tobacco pipes, and other artifacts. The research in this volume offers an invitation to investigate New Netherland with the same sustained rigor that archaeologists and historians have shown for English colonialism. The many topics outlined here will serve as starting points for further work on early Dutch expansion in America. Contributors: Craig Lukezic | John P. McCarthy | Charles Gehring | Marijn Stolk | Ian Burrow | Adam Luscier | Matthew Kirk | Michael T. Lucas | Kristina S. Traudt | Marie-Lorraine Pipes | Anne-Marie Cantwell | Diana diZerega Wall | Lu Ann De Cunzo | Wade P. Catts | William B. Liebeknecht | Marshall Joseph Becker | Meta F. Janowitz | Richard G. Schaefer | Paul R. Huey | David A. Furlow

Author : Pieter C. Emmer,Jos J.L. Gommans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108428378

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The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 by Pieter C. Emmer,Jos J.L. Gommans Pdf

This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.

Author : Jaap Jacobs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0801475163

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The Colony of New Netherland by Jaap Jacobs Pdf

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 : Dirk Barreveld
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409278177

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Henry Hudson and the Rise and Fall of New Amsterdam by Dirk Barreveld Pdf

In the year 1609 a hand full of sturdy sailors watched with amazement the shores they were approaching. Their ship, the Halve Maen, came from The Netherlands. Amsterdam, their place of origin, was the worldâs commercial center. The captain of the ship was named Henry Hudson, he was British. The ship was small, it had a crew of only 16 men. Some 15 years later a few clever businessmen from Amsterdam established a permanent basis at the mouth of the Hudson River: New Amsterdam.

Author : Adriaen van der Donck
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803219397

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A Description of New Netherland by Adriaen van der Donck Pdf

This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century. Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden University in the 1640s, became the law enforcement officer for the Dutch patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, located along the upper Hudson River. His position enabled him to interact extensively with Dutch colonists and the local Algonquians and Iroquoians. An astute observer, detailed recorder, and accessible writer, Van der Donck was ideally situated to write about his experiences and the natural and cultural worlds around him. Van der Donck s Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant was first published in 1655 and then expanded in 1656. An inaccurate and abbreviated English translation appeared in 1841 and was reprinted in 1968. This new volume features an accurate, polished translation by Diederik Willem Goedhuys and includes all the material from the original 1655 and 1656 editions. The result is an indispensable first-hand account with enduring value to historians, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists.

Author : Gwenn F. Epperson
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Dutch Americans
ISBN : 9780806314006

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New Netherland Roots by Gwenn F. Epperson Pdf

The purpose of this book is to show the researcher how to trace a 17th-century New Netherland ancestor back to his place of origin in Europe. Mrs. Epperson demonstrates that without leaving the United States, and without speaking or reading a foreign language, the researcher, in using such records as exist at the LDS Family History Library and family history centers throughout the United States, can successfully trace his New Netherland ancestry all on his own.

Author : Russell Shorto
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400096336

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The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto Pdf

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 : E.B. O'CALLAGHAN, M.D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:afj7966:0001.001

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HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND; OR, NEW YORK UNDER THE DUTCH by E.B. O'CALLAGHAN, M.D. Pdf

Author : Oliver A. Rink
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Dutch
ISBN : 0801495857

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Holland on the Hudson by Oliver A. Rink Pdf

Holland on the Hudson traces the history of New Netherland from Henry Hudson's exploration of the region in 1609 to the surrender of the Dutch colony to an English fleet in 1664. Oliver A. Rink's approach is both narrative an analytic as he describes in detail the colony's commercial origins, its social and economic development, and the colonists' rivalry with the English in the New World.

Author : Bill Greer
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-24
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1439221782

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The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan by Bill Greer Pdf

When a young bride opens a Manhattan tavern in 1626, her razor-sharp tongue and premium beer spur the tiny settlement of New Amsterdam toward a collision with the tyrannical Dutchmen who rule it.

Author : Dingman Versteeg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UIUC:30112049412650

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New Netherland's Founding by Dingman Versteeg Pdf

Author : Leen D'Haenens
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780776604893

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Images of Canadianness by Leen D'Haenens Pdf

Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting patterns in English-speaking Canada and Quebec; the vitality of French-language communities outside Quebec; the Belgian and Dutch immigration waves to Canada and the resulting Dutch-language immigrant press; major transitions taking place in Nunavut; the media as a tool for self-government for Canada's First Peoples; attempts by Canadian Indians to negotiate their position in society; the Canada-US relationship; Canada's trade with the EU; and Canada's cultural policy in the light of the information highway.