New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America(3 The Atlantic World)

This volume covers the history of the Dutch colony New Netherland on the North American continent. Based on extensive research of archival material on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, much of which has not been previously used, this work provides the most complete overview yet of a colony that has been generally neglected by historians. The chapters deal with themes such as patterns of immigration, government and justice, economy, religion, social structure, material culture, and mentality of the colonists. This book will be very useful not just for students of Dutch colonial history, but also for scholars in early American history.

Table of Contents:
Preface Glossary List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. ‘A Blessed Country, where Milk and Honey Flow’ 2. ‘The Peopling of Such Empty and Unfurnished Lands’ 3. ‘The Exercise of Justice and Government’ 4. ‘The Trade, that Really Concerns us’ 5. ‘God’s Church and Honor Should be Cared for’ 6. ‘Each According to his Condition, State, and Circumstances’ 7. ‘In Such a Far Distant Country, Separated from all the Friends’ Conclusion Appendixes List of Archival Sources Bibliography Illustrations Index

About the Author :
Jaap Jacobs, Ph.D. (1999) Leiden University, is Postdoc Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Dutch Golden Age of the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the Dutch colony New Netherland and is currently preparing a biography of Petrus Stuyversant

Review :
"This book belongs on every New Yorker's shelf... It's unquestionably a milestone on the road to integrating the Dutch colony into the history of New york and America." Joyce D. Goodfriend, University of Denver, Colorado, New York History 89: 4 (Fall 2008); 426-428 "Jacobs gives a remakably full, accurate, and authoritative account of the Dutch colonial settlement in North America. The most striking feature of his work is that it is founded primarily upon archival material that the author read in the original Dutch manuscripts bot in the Netherlands and in the United States. Few, if any, previously published general studies of New Netherland have been based on such close, first-hand study of manuscript material in both locations." Francis J. Sypher, The Weathercook, 2006. "This excellent history of the Dutch colony that preceded New York is both definitive and readable. The author, a major New Netherland scholar, is fully conversant with all the relevant past and present literature in Dutch and English, and has done extensive research in archives in the Netherlands and the U.S." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2005. "Jacobs, to his great credit, shows just how close New Netherland's settlers and officials came to recreating the rich cultural world they had left behind, even under the most challenging and novel of circumstances." Mark Thompson, Itinerario, 2005. "Despite the many books and papers that have been published on various aspects of New Netherland, there has remained a need for a reliable scholarly overall history of the colony. We're pleased to report that Dr. Jaap Jacobs' New Netherland fills that need...With the publication of this book, genealogists with roots in New Netherland no longer have any excuse for relying on inadequate, out-of-date histories of the colonies. In spite of its high price, it should be read from cover to cover, and then used continuously as a reference work." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 2005.