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Possessing Albany, 1630-1710 : The Dutch and English Experiences by Donna Merwick (1990, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521373867

ISBN-139780521373869

eBay Product ID (ePID)575001

Product Key Features

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePossessing Albany, 1630-1710 : the Dutch and English Experiences

SubjectUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)

Publication Year1990

TypeTextbook

AuthorDonna Merwick

Subject AreaHistory

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight22.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN89-033210

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"Professor Merwick, of the University of Melbourne (Australia), has written a thought-provoking study of 17th and 18th century Albany." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, "...fascinating and highly original; it affords a fresh view of a timeworn subject by introducing anthropological thought into the apparatus of historiography." William N. Fenton, Ethnohistory

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal974.7/4302

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Possessing the land, 1630-1652; 2. Trading on the land, 1652-1664; 3. Surrendering the land, 1664; 4. Occupancy of land under English rule, 1674-1690; 5. Contesting the land, 1689-1691; 6. A military presence on the land, 1690-1710; 7. Reflections on looking at the land; Index.

SynopsisIn Possessing Albany, 1630-1710, Donna Merwick reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth century New York took hold of the New World. As Merwick 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. The Dutch preferred to 'navigate the land', and as a consequence they settled in the New World along trade routes: navigatable rivers. The English, in contrast, who came in 1664, were concerned with land mass, with 'occupying the land'. The proprieties that lay behind all the practices involved in 'navigating' and 'occupying' the land were cosmological. That is, the smallest action taken on the land reconfirmed the deepest sense of what it meant to be 'civilized'. The conquest of 1664, then, was far more traumatic for the Dutch inhabitants than we have allowed ourselves to imagine. Merwick's study moves across the boundaries of disciplines. She tries to understand those archives as the Dutch, the insiders to the culture, would have done., 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., In Possessing Albany, 1630-1710, Donna Merwick reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth century New York took hold of the New World. As Merwick reminds us, the Dutch understood themselves to be republican, urban, mobile, mercantile, and amphibious; in short, properly Dutch.

LC Classification NumberF129.A357 M47 1990