Shame and the Sorrow
Subtitle: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780812222722
Subjects: Indians of north america, history; Indians of north america, wars; New york (state), history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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."--Book jacket.