New Netherland connections : intimate networks and Atlantic ties in seventeenth-century America

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New Netherland connections : intimate networks and Atlantic ties in seventeenth-century America

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intimate networks and Atlantic ties in seventeenth-century America

Statement of responsibility

Susanah Shaw Romney

Creator

• Romney, Susanah Shaw

Contributor

• Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Issuing body

• Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Subject

• Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 17th century
• Dutch -- New York (State) -- History -- 17th century
• Indians of North America -- New Netherland
• New Netherland -- Ethnic relations
• New Netherland -- History
• African Americans -- New Netherland
• Social networks -- New Netherland
• Women -- New Netherland
• New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--

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non fiction

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bibliography