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Dutch New York The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture

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ISBN-10: 0823230406

ISBN-13: 9780823230402

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Russell Shorto, Roger Panetta

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The 2009 quadricentennial celebrations commemorating the discovery of the Hudson River byHenry Hudson will also spotlight one of our deepest and most enduring national legacies—theDutch presence that has shaped not just the Hudson Valley but four centuries of American life.This lavishly illustrated book, a companion to the exhibition opening in June 2009 at the HudsonRiver Museum, takes needed stock of the remarkable past created by the settlers of NewNetherlands. Although the Dutch controlled the Hudson Valley only until ceding it to the Britishin 1664, the Dutch established the towns and cities that today define the region—from NewAmsterdam upriver to Fort Orange, today’s Albany. The…    
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Book details

List price: $50.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English

Charles T. Gehring is the director of the New Netherland Project with the New York State Library and the coeditor of numerous collections of original documents from Dutch New Netherland. William A. Starna is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta and a coeditor ofIroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers(Nebraska 2007). Gehring and Starna coeditedA Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634–1635: The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaertand (with Dean R. Snow)In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives of a Native People. nbsp; Diederik Willem Goedhuys is a native of the Netherlands and thirty year resident of South Africa. In…