The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781410200310
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; United States - Colonial Period; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA
First sentence: "WHEN one beholds this city," says Fenelon, in speaking of Amsterdam, "one is inclined to believe that it is not the city of a particular people, but the common city of all the peoples in the world, and the centre of their commerce."
Table of contents: title: Volume 1; title: The Medieval Netherlands; title: Dutch Influence upon England; title: Verrazano and Hudson; title: The West India Company; title: “Privileges and Exemptions”; title: King Log and King Stork; title: A Soldier’s Paternal Rule; title: Some Affairs of New Amsterdam; title: Dutch and English; title: Volume II; title: The English Autocrats; title: New York in the Year 1680; title: Penn’s Holy Experiment; title: Downfall of the Stuarts; title: The Citadel of America; title: Knickerbocker Society; title: The Quaker Commonwealth; title: The Migrations of Sects; title: Appendices