Possessing Albany, 1630 1710: The Dutch and English Experiences

By Donna Merwick

Book Overview

This book reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth-century New York took hold of the New World. As the author reminds us, the Dutch understood themselves to be republican, urban, mobile, mercantile, and amphibious; in short, properly Dutch. She shows how the Dutch possessed the land, traded over it, surrendered it to the English, and then lived out their lives balancing a gaze that the conquerors had for land against their own.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521373867
• ISBN13: 9780521373869
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"