The shame and the sorrow
Subtitle: Dutch-Amerindian encounters in New Netherland
By: Donna Merwick.
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780812239287
Subjects: Indians of North America -- New Netherland -- History; Indians of North America -- Wars -- New Netherland; New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; New Netherland -- History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.