Explorers, fortunes, and love letters
Subtitle: a window on New Netherland
By: edited by Martha Dickinson Shattuck.
Contributors: Shattuck, Martha Dickinson.
Publisher: New Netherland Institute and Mount Ida Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Dutch -- New York (State) -- History -- 17th century; New Netherland -- History; New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Martha Dickinson Shattuck; title: Three conversations / Russell Shorto; title: Henry Hudson : New World, new world view / William T. Reynolds; title: The native-Dutch experience in the Mohawk Valley / William A. Starna; title: Jews in New Netherland : an Atlantic perspective / Noah L. Gelfand; title: Fortune in the New World : Jan Jansz Damen in America / Jaap Jacobs ; translated by Elisabeth Paling Funk; title: Barber-surgeons in New Netherland and early New York / Peter R. Christoph; title: Glimpses of childhood in the colony of New Netherland / Adriana E. van Zwieten; title: Bread : staff of Dutch life in the old and new world / Peter G. Rose; title: From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam : Washington Irving, the Dutch St. Nicolas, and the; title: American Santa Claus / Elisabeth Paling Funk; title: Searching for true love : letters from Kiliaen van Rensselaer / Janny Venema; title: Family and faction : the Dutch roots of colonial New York's factional politics / David William Voorhees; title: Why New Netherland matters / Joyce D. Goodfriend.