The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley, livre ebook

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the issues involved in the expansion of European interests to the Hudson River Valley, the cultural interaction that took place there, and the colonization of the region. Written in accessible language by leading scholars, these essays incorporate the latest historical insights as they explore the new world in which American Indians and Europeans interacted, the settlement of the Dutch colony that ensued from the exploration of the Hudson River, and the development of imperial and other networks which came to incorporate the Hudson Valley.
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
I. European Worlds
1. The Seventeenth-Century Empire of the Dutch Republic, c. 1590–1672
Jaap Jacobs
2. The Seventeenth-Century English Empire
L. H. Roper
3. Dutch Cartography and the Atlantic World at the Time of Henry Hudson
Kees Zandvliet
II. American Worlds
4. Avenue of Empire: The Hudson Valley in an Atlantic Context
Timothy J. Shannon
5. Henry Hudson, the Munsees, and the Wampum Revolution
Paul Otto
6. Separate Vessels: Iroquois Engagements with the Dutch of New Netherland, c. 1613–1664
Jon W. Parmenter
III. The Establishment of Colonial Worlds
7. The Other 400th Anniversary: Samuel de Champlain and the French Atlantic Empire
Leslie Choquette
8. “In Such a Far Distant Land, Separated from All the Friends”: Why Were the Dutch in New Netherland?
Jaap Jacobs
9. The House of Hope in the Valley of Discord: Connecticut Geopolitics and “Anglo-Dutch” Relations (1613–1654)
Lauric Henneton
IV. The Formation of Atlantic Worlds
10. Religion and Toleration in Old and New Netherland
Willem Frijhoff
11. Indian-European Networks and Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century
Claudia Schnurmann
12. Merging the Two Streams of Migration to New Netherland
Joyce D. Goodfriend
List of Contributors
Index