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The Colony of New Netherland
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Pages: 348
Authors: Jaap Jacobs
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The
Narratives of New Netherland
Language: en
Pages: 510
Authors: John Franklin Jameson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-01 - Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

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Narratives of New Netherland reads like a small anthology on the discovery, origins, and history of the United States, but from a Dutch, rather than traditional
New Netherland Connections
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Susanah Shaw Romney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-28 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships bega
A Description of New Netherland
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Adriaen van der Donck
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the
New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Evan Haefeli
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-08 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrec