Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521533249)

This book reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth-century New York took hold of the New World. As the author reminds us, the Dutch understood themselves to be republican, urban, mobile, mercantile, and amphibious; in short, properly Dutch. She shows how the Dutch possessed the land, traded over it, surrendered it to the English, and then lived out their lives balancing a "gaze" that the conquerors had for land against their own.

Author: Donna Merwick
ISBN-10: 0521533244
ISBN-13: 9780521533249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2003
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.24w x 0.83d