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Opening statements : law, jurisprudence, and the legacy of Dutch New York / edited by Albert M. Rosenblatt and Julia C. Rosenblatt.

Other author/creatorRosenblatt, Albert M.
Other author/creatorRosenblatt, Julia C.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Descriptionxxiv, 243 pages : illustrations (mostly color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Excelsior editions
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012023547
ISBN9781438446578 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781438446585 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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