Possessing Albany, 1630-1710

Possessing Albany, 1630-1710
Author: Donna Merwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2003-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 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.