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The Dutch-American Farm

Author : David S. Cohen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814715000

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The Dutch-American Farm

Author : David Steven Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0814714544

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A rich and readable source of information and interpretation. -New York History. Cohen presents a detailed description of the everyday life of early Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey. He gives special attention to the rise of the Dutch Reformed Church in these areas, and particularly the denomination's transformation into a subculture that could truly be considered American. -Bookman's Weekly An impressive study of material culture -Choice

Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations

Author : Hans Krabbendam,Cornelis A. van Minnen,Giles Scott-Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1438430132

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Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations by Hans Krabbendam,Cornelis A. van Minnen,Giles Scott-Smith Pdf

A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.

From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers

Author : Allan Kulikoff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860786

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From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers by Allan Kulikoff Pdf

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society. Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.

Sojourner Truth's America

Author : Margaret Washington
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252093746

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Sojourner Truth's America by Margaret Washington Pdf

This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most charismatic and influential characters: Sojourner Truth. In an in-depth account of this amazing activist, Margaret Washington unravels Sojourner Truth's world within the broader panorama of African American slavery and the nation's most significant reform era. Born into bondage among the Hudson Valley Dutch in Ulster County, New York, Isabella was sold several times, married, and bore five children before fleeing in 1826 with her infant daughter one year before New York slavery was abolished. In 1829, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a domestic, preached, joined a religious commune, and then in 1843 had an epiphany. Changing her name to Sojourner Truth, she began traveling the country as a champion of the downtrodden and a spokeswoman for equality by promoting Christianity, abolitionism, and women's rights. Gifted in verbal eloquence, wit, and biblical knowledge, Sojourner Truth possessed an earthy, imaginative, homespun personality that won her many friends and admirers and made her one of the most popular and quoted reformers of her times. Washington's biography of this remarkable figure considers many facets of Sojourner Truth's life to explain how she became one of the greatest activists in American history, including her African and Dutch religious heritage; her experiences of slavery within contexts of labor, domesticity, and patriarchy; and her profoundly personal sense of justice and intuitive integrity. Organized chronologically into three distinct eras of Truth's life, Sojourner Truth's America examines the complex dynamics of her times, beginning with the transnational contours of her spirituality and early life as Isabella and her embroilments in legal controversy. Truth's awakening during nineteenth-century America's progressive surge then propelled her ascendancy as a rousing preacher and political orator despite her inability to read and write. Throughout the book, Washington explores Truth's passionate commitment to family and community, including her vision for a beloved community that extended beyond race, gender, and socioeconomic condition and embraced a common humanity. For Sojourner Truth, the significant model for such communalism was a primitive, prophetic Christianity. Illustrated with dozens of images of Truth and her contemporaries, Sojourner Truth's America draws a delicate and compelling balance between Sojourner Truth's personal motivations and the influences of her historical context. Washington provides important insights into the turbulent cultural and political climate of the age while also separating the many myths from the facts concerning this legendary American figure.

Eclipse of Empires

Author : Patricia Jane Roylance
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817313821

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This book analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what the author calls "narratives of imperial eclipse," texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another. The central claim in this book is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse - for example, Incan Peru yielding to Spain, or the Ojibway to the French - heightened the concerns of many American writers about specific intranational social problems plaguing the nation at the time: race, class, gender, religion, and economics.

The Colony of New Netherland

Author : Jaap Jacobs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0801475163

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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.

The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America

Author : Paul Otto
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800733909

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The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America by Paul Otto Pdf

Employing a frontier framework, this book traces intercultural relations in the lower Hudson River valley of early seventeenth-century New Netherland. It explores the interaction between the Dutch and the Munsee Indians and considers how they, and individuals within each group, interacted, focusing in particular on how the changing colonial landscape affected their cultural encounter and Munsee cultural development. At each stage of European colonization - first contact, trade, and settlement - the Munsees faced evolving and changing challenges. Understanding culture in terms of worldview and societal structures, this volume identifies ways in which Munsee society changed in an effort to adjust to the new intercultural relations and looks at the ways the Munsees maintained aspects of their own culture and resisted any imposition of Dutch societal structures and sovereignty over them. In addition, the book includes a suggestive afterword in which the author applies his frontier framework to Dutch-indigenous relations in the Cape colony.

Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters

Author : New Netherland Institute
Publisher : Mount Ida Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,5 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.

Images of Canadianness

Author : Leen D'Haenens
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 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.

New World Dutch Studies

Author : Roderic H. Blackburn,Nancy A. Kelley
Publisher : Albany Institute of History and Art
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438429892

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New World Dutch Studies by Roderic H. Blackburn,Nancy A. Kelley Pdf

The art, archaeology, history, and lifeways of New Netherland come vividly to life in these essays by world experts on both sides of the Atlantic. The wide range of objects used and manufactured by Dutch settlers in the New World reveals much about their social life and times. Of particular interest in this volume are Fort Orange pipe bowls, ceramics, wooden cellars and other perishable structures, cupboards, the town house, farming techniques and equipment, plates, seals, rural architecture, canals, and the evidence of New Netherland life gleaned from paintings and the Knickerbocker works of Washington Irving. A companion to the widely praised Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609–1776, this volume offers in-depth descriptions and analyses of Dutch colonial life and material culture, as assessed by the leading scholars in the Netherlands and the United States. Roderic H. Blackburn is an ethnologist and architectural historian who has held positions as Director of Research at Historic Cherry Hill, Assistant Director of the Albany Institute of History and Art, and Senior Research Fellow at the New York State Museum. He is the author of Dutch Colonial Homes in America, Great Houses of New England, and (with Ruth Piwonka) Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609–1776. Nancy A. Kelly is an Associate Museum Exhibit Planner at the New York State Museum.

Images of Canadianness

Author : Leen D'Haenens
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776616124

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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.

Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley

Author : Brian W. Beltman,Ulbe Eringa
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Dutch Americans
ISBN : 0252021959

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Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley by Brian W. Beltman,Ulbe Eringa Pdf

The letters Dutch immigrant Ulbe Eringa wrote home from the United States are rich with information on farming, the family, the household economy, church activities, and school involvement as he related them to his relatives back in the Netherlands. His memoirs, written in 1942 and 1943, supplement the letters and provide details about his life before emigrating. Brian Beltman's introduction and chapter-by-chapter commentary place Eringa's story within its historical context, complementing findings that there has been more continuity than discontinuity between the European past and the American ethnic experience.

These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace

Author : Brendan McConville
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0812218590

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These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace by Brendan McConville Pdf

Jason Robert Brown's contemporary musical is honest and intimate, with an exuberantly romantic score. It takes a bold look at one young couple's hope that love can endure the test of time.

Revisiting New Netherland

Author : Joyce D. Goodfriend
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047407997

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Revisiting New Netherland by Joyce D. Goodfriend Pdf

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.