Author: Israel AcreliusPublisher: Philadelphia : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
ISBN:
Category : Delaware
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A History of New Sweden
Author: Israel AcreliusPublisher: Philadelphia : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
ISBN:
Category : Delaware
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A History of New Sweden
Author: Israel AcreliusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware
Author: Amandus JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delaware
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A History of New Sweden; Or, The Settlements on the River Delaware ...
Author: Israel AcreliusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
History of New Sweden, Or, Settlements on the River Delaware
Author: Israel AcreliusThe 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware
Author: Peter Stebbins CraigPublisher: Sag Publications
ISBN: 9780961610517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book "is based upon the 1693 census of the Swedes on the Delaware, a census taken to document the colonists' argument to Swedish authorities that there remained a sizable group of Swedes in America who were worthy of help in the form of new pastors for their churches and new religious books in the Swedish language" -- Intro.
Lenape Country
Author: Jean R. SoderlundPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved their political sovereignty for the next fifty years as Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and English colonists settled the Delaware Valley. The European outposts did not approach the size and strength of those in Virginia, New England, and New Netherland. Even after thousands of Quakers arrived in West New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the late 1670s and '80s, the region successfully avoided war for another seventy-five years. Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of the multiethnic society of the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After Swanendael, the Natives, Swedes, and Finns avoided war by focusing on trade and forging strategic alliances in such events as the Dutch conquest, the Mercurius affair, the Long Swede conspiracy, and English attempts to seize land. Drawing on a wide range of sources, author Jean R. Soderlund demonstrates that the hallmarks of Delaware Valley society—commitment to personal freedom, religious liberty, peaceful resolution of conflict, and opposition to hierarchical government—began in the Delaware Valley not with Quaker ideals or the leadership of William Penn but with the Lenape Indians, whose culture played a key role in shaping Delaware Valley society. The first comprehensive account of the Lenape Indians and their encounters with European settlers before Pennsylvania's founding, Lenape Country places Native culture at the center of this part of North America.
A History of New Sweden, Or the Settlements on the River Delaware (Classic Reprint)
Author: Israel AcreliusPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527979246
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Excerpt from A History of New Sweden, or the Settlements on the River Delaware Whilst we write a new Swedish colony is projected in Delaware, near the original starting-point of New Sweden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
New Sweden in America
Author: Carol E. HoffeckerPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"Although it was the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware River valley, the New Sweden colony has long been ignored by American colonial historians. To right this omission, and to mark the 350th anniversary of the founding of the New Sweden colony, the University of Delaware sponsored an international conference, "New Sweden in America: Scandinavian Pioneers and Their Legacy" in March of 1988. This event brought together twenty-eight scholars from Sweden, Finland, and the United States who represented several fields, including history, anthropology, and geography. The conference papers, collected in New Sweden in America, present the first look at the New Sweden colony since the advent of modern historical methods." "The essays in this volume examine the economic and social lives of a political entity, as well as its political structures. The topics discussed include an examination of the European environment from which the colonial venture came, the colonists' relations with the Native Americans, and the Swedish and Finnish settlers' adaptation to colonial life. The essays depict seventeenth-century Sweden as it emerged from its traditional ways and isolation into the dynamic world of Western European international politics and trade, and the failed attempts to bring European mercantilist policies to New Sweden." "The fascinating stories of the trade between the Swedish and Dutch settlers and the Susquehannock and Lenni Lenape Indians, the development of pidgin languages to facilitate the trade, the devout Lutheran religious observations of the colonists, and the introduction of Finnish construction methods (especially the log cabin) are all described in this volume. To encourage further scholarship in this field, the contributors identify topics for future study and delineate where original colonial documents may be found on both sides of the Atlantic."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
A History of New Sweden; Or, the Settlements on the River Delaware. Translated from the Swedish, with an Introd. and Notes
Author: Israel AcreliusPublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780353087927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
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