New Netherland connections : intimate networks and Atlantic ties in seventeenth-century America / Susanah Shaw Romney.

Author/creator Romney, Susanah Shaw author.
Other author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill, [North Carolina] : University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Descriptionxviii, 318 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Social networks--New Netherland.
Women--New Netherland.
Indians of North America--New Netherland.
African Americans--New Netherland.
Dutch--New York (State). --History. --17th century.
New Netherland--History.
New Netherland--Ethnic relations.
New York (State)--History. --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Emigration and immigration. --History. --17th century.

Abstract "Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within an Atlantic economy and the nascent colony of New Netherland. In the greater Hudson Valley, Dutch newcomers, Native American residents, and enslaved Africans wove a series of intimate networks that reached from the West India Company slave house on Manhattan, to the Haudenosaunee longhouses along the Mohawk River, to the inns and alleys of maritime Amsterdam. This work pioneers a new understanding of the development of early modern empire as arising out of personal ties"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013042706
ISBN9781469614250 (hardback)
ISBN1469614251 (hardback)

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Joyner General Stacks F122.1 .R65 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold