Peter Stuyvesant
Subtitle: Dutch military leader
By: by Joan Banks ; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., senior consulting editor.
Contributors: Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, 1917-
Series: Colonial leaders
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672 -- Juvenile literature; Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672; Governors -- New York (State) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Governors; New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; New Netherland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: A biography of the hot-tempered leader who, though intolerant and unpopular, brought major reforms to the colony of New Netherlands before its surrender to the British in 1664.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 76) and index.