Romney, Susanah Shaw.
Chapel 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]
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Goods, Wares, and Merchandise : Amsterdam’s Intimate Atlantic — She Is Now Already at Sea : Extending Ties, Creating Empire — Not Altogether Brotherly : Elusive Intimacy between Natives and Newcomers — To Be Together wtih One Another : Creating an African Community — The Almost-Sinking Ship of New Netherland : Personal Networks and Regional Power.
- 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.
Subjects:
- New Netherland — History.
- Social networks — New Netherland.
- New Netherland — Ethnic relations.
- Women — New Netherland.
- Indians of North America — New Netherland.
- African Americans — New Netherland.
- Dutch — New York (State) — History — 17th century.
- New York (State) — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Amsterdam (Netherlands) — Emigration and immigration — History — 17th century.
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