Title: The shame and the sorrow : Dutch-Amerindian encounters in New Netherland /
Authors: Merwick, Donna.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Indians of North America New Netherland History.; Indians of North America Wars New Netherland.; New York (State) History; New Netherland History.; New York (State) History
Abstract: "How are the Dutch to be judged? Donna Merwick, in The Shame and the Sorrow, asks this question. She points to a betrayal both of their own values and of the native peoples. She also directs us to the self-delusion of hegemonic control. Her work belongs alongside the best of today's postcolonial studies in the description of cross-cultural violence and subtle questioning of the nature of writing its history."--Jacket.
Contents: Alongshore -- Shared beaches -- Staying alongshore -- Omens of a tragedy coming on -- Deadly encounter -- Cross-colonization -- Final logged entries.