Series |
Excelsior editions
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Contents |
A well regulated country where justice and government prevail" / Martha Dickinson Shattuck -- The souls of New Amsterdam's African American children / Joyce D. Goodfriend -- Matters of "trifling moment" : New Netherland and the New York tradition of arbitration / Troy A. McKenzie and Wilson C. Freeman -- The Declaration of Independence and the Dutch legacy / Wijnand W. Mijnhardt -- Real estate or political sovereignty? : The Dutch, Munsees, and the purchase of Manhattan Island / Paul Otto -- Crimen laesae maiestatis or abuse of power? : The 1647 trial of Cornelis Melijn and Jochem Pietersz Kuijter / Jaap Jacobs -- Imagining the Stadt Huys / Diana diZerega Wall and Anne-Marie Cantwell -- Prosecution or persecution? : The 1657 Flushing incident / Charles Gehring -- Lutherans and the law in New Netherland : the politics of religion / Peter R. Christoph -- A flourishing city : Jews in New Amsterdam, 1654 / Leo Hershkowitz -- Governors Island and the origins of religious tolerance / Joep de Koning -- Marital litigations in New Netherland and proprietary New York : similarities and differences in application of Dutch and English law / Michael E. Gherke -- English law through Dutch eyes : the Leislerian understanding of the English legal system in New York / David William Voorhees. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2012023547 |
ISBN | 9781438446578 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9781438446585 (pbk. : alk. paper) |