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

Author/creator Romney, Susanah Shaw
Other author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill, North Carolina : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburt, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, [2014]
Descriptionxviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013042706
ISBN9781469614250 (hardback : alk. paper)

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