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Author : William Pretyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Flags
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4RLW
Author : Donna Merwick
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501728815
"He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-century history." So begins Donna Merwick's fascinating tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of historical reconstruction, she introduces us to Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam and the long-forgotten world he inhabited in Holland's North American colony. Her powerful narrative will make readers care for this quiet and studious man, an "ordinary" settler for whom the clash of empires brought tragedy.Like so many of his fellow countrymen, Janse left his Dutch homeland as a young adult to try his luck in New Netherland. After spending a few years on Manhattan Island, he moved on to the fur trading settlement today known as Albany. Merwick traces his journey to a new continent and re-creates the satisfying existence this respected burgher enjoyed with his wife in the bustling town. As a notary Janse was, in the author's words, "surrounded by stories, those he listened to and recorded, the hundreds he archived in a chest or trunk." His familiar life was turned upside down by the British conquest of the colony. Merwick recounts the changes brought about by the new rulers and imagines the despair Janse must have felt when English, a language he had never learned, replaced his native tongue in official transactions. In any military adventure, truth is alleged to be the first casualty. Merwick offers a poignant reminder that the first casualties are in fact people. As much a musing on what history obscures as what it reveals, her book is a superior work by a master practitioner of her craft.
Author : State Historical Society of Iowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Iowa
ISBN : IOWA:31858034827448
Author : State Historical Society of Iowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Iowa
ISBN : WISC:89073011926
Author : State Historical Society of Iowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Iowa
ISBN : MINN:31951002235669G
List of members in 10th, 24th- reports.
Author : State Historical Society of Iowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Iowa
ISBN : UCAL:$B725412
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Mount Vernon
ISBN : NYPL:33433084438112
Author : New York (State). Constitutional Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Constitutional conventions
ISBN : UOM:39015030795317
Author : Iowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Iowa
ISBN : IOWA:31858012296525
Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
Author : Iowa. General Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Iowa
ISBN : MINN:31951P01100273T
Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
Author : New York (State). Constitutional Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P01104036N
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3000064
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89058626375
Author : State Historical Society of Iowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112032653922
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081898052