Possessing Albany, 1630-1710
Download or Read eBook Possessing Albany, 1630-1710 PDF written by Donna Merwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Donna Merwick |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2003-02-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0521533244 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780521533249 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Possessing Albany, 1630-1710 by : Donna Merwick
Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth-century New York took hold of the New World. As the author reminds us, the Dutch understood themselves to be republican, urban, mobile, mercantile, and amphibious; in short, properly Dutch. She shows how the Dutch possessed the land, traded over it, surrendered it to the English, and then lived out their lives balancing a "gaze" that the conquerors had for land against their own.
