Author: Peter R. ChristophPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Andros Papers 1677-1678
Author: Peter R. ChristophPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Andros Papers, 1674-1676
Author: Florence A. W. ChristophPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Death of a Notary
Author: Donna MerwickPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
"He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-century history." So begins Donna Merwick's fascinating tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of historical reconstruction, she introduces us to Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam and the long-forgotten world he inhabited in Holland's North American colony. Her powerful narrative will make readers care for this quiet and studious man, an "ordinary" settler for whom the clash of empires brought tragedy.Like so many of his fellow countrymen, Janse left his Dutch homeland as a young adult to try his luck in New Netherland. After spending a few years on Manhattan Island, he moved on to the fur trading settlement today known as Albany. Merwick traces his journey to a new continent and re-creates the satisfying existence this respected burgher enjoyed with his wife in the bustling town. As a notary Janse was, in the author's words, "surrounded by stories, those he listened to and recorded, the hundreds he archived in a chest or trunk." His familiar life was turned upside down by the British conquest of the colony. Merwick recounts the changes brought about by the new rulers and imagines the despair Janse must have felt when English, a language he had never learned, replaced his native tongue in official transactions. In any military adventure, truth is alleged to be the first casualty. Merwick offers a poignant reminder that the first casualties are in fact people. As much a musing on what history obscures as what it reveals, her book is a superior work by a master practitioner of her craft.
The Memory of All Ancient Customs
Author: Tom Arne MidtrødPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In The Memory of All Ancient Customs, Tom Arne Midtrød examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, political, and social communication among the American Indian peoples of the Hudson Valley—including the Mahicans, Wappingers, and Esopus Indians—from the early seventeenth century through the American Revolutionary era. By focusing on how members of different Native groups interacted with one another, this book places Indians rather than Europeans on center stage.Midtrød uncovers a vast and multifaceted Native American world that was largely hidden from the eyes of the Dutch and English colonists who gradually displaced the indigenous peoples of the Hudson Valley. In The Memory of All Ancient Customs he establishes the surprising extent to which numerically small and militarily weak Indian groups continued to understand the world around them in their own terms, and as often engaged— sometimes violently, sometimes cooperatively—with neighboring peoples to the east (New England Indians) and west (the Iroquois ) as with the Dutch and English colonizers. Even as they fell more and more under the domination of powerful outsiders—Iroquois as well as Dutch and English—the Hudson Valley Indians were resilient, maintaining or adapting features of their traditional diplomatic ties until the moment of their final dispossession during the American Revolutionary War.
Humanities
Author: The Andros Papers, 1674-1676
Author: Peter R. ChristophPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Before the Melting Pot
Author: Joyce D. GoodfriendPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. Joyce Goodfriend paints a vivid portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America and showing how colonial settlers of varying backgrounds worked out a basis for coexistence. She argues that, contrary to the prevalent notion of rapid Anglicization, ethnicity proved an enduring force in this small urban society well into the eighteenth century.
The Andros Papers 1679-1680
Author: Peter R. ChristophPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
This is the last of three volumes to document the administration of the Dutch-controlled colonies that were under the jurisdiction of New York's first governor, Sir Edmund Andros. The documents range from official correspondence, reports and notes, to court minutes.
Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680–1820
Author: Douglas J HamiltonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317318188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of crisis and turmoil. Contributors look at the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, Robert Burns’s early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists.
Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York
Author: Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813543796
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In Everyday Nature, Sara Gronim shows how scientific advances were received in the early modern world, from the time Europeans settled in America until just before the American Revolution. Settlers approached a wide range of innovations, such as smallpox inoculation, maps and surveys, Copernican cosmology, and Ben Franklin's experiments with electricity, with great skepticism. New Yorkers in particular were distrustful because of the chronic political and religious factionalism in the colony. Those discoveries that could be easily reconciled with existing beliefs about healing the sick, agricultural practices, and the revolution of the planets were more readily embraced.