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Book Voyages from Holland to America  A D  1632 to 1644

Download or read book Voyages from Holland to America A D 1632 to 1644 written by David Pietersz. de Vries and published by New York : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1853 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remembrance of Patria

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  • Author : Roderic H. Blackburn
  • Publisher : Albany Institute of History and Art
  • Release : 1988-01-01
  • ISBN : 1438429908
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Remembrance of Patria written by Roderic H. Blackburn and published by Albany Institute of History and Art. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much of the Dutch world in America survived after the English? One hundred years after the English took control of New Netherland in 1664, New York retained many Dutch characteristics. The cultural milieu shifted abruptly, however, with population growth and increased affluence following the termination of the French and Indian Wars in 1760. British customs and tastes that were stylishly attractive to a new generation of moneyed colonists soon put Dutch culture in retreat in all but the most isolated areas. Some elements of the past persisted in ways never dreamed of by the Dutch West India Company officials, who oversaw their nation's colonization in America. These include caucus politics, separation of church and state, neighborly evening visits on the stoop, and Santa Claus. Even more striking is the similarity between principles and practices that emerged in the Dutch Republic four centuries ago and some of the precepts on which the American republic was founded. Much of the Dutch cultural and social history may be interpreted and understood through objects they brought with them and from those objects and structures they created in the New World. This landmark volume, originating in a major exhibit commemorating the tricentennial of the city of Albany, uncovers the range of Dutch colonial experience in America through some 350 objects: paintings, furniture, silver, gold, ceramics, textiles, prints, drawings, and architecture. The result is a rare and remarkable glimpse of New Netherland, a long-ago world that continues to resonate today. Roderic H. Blackburn is an ethnologist and architectural historian who has held positions as Director of Research at Historic Cherry Hill, Assistant Director of the Albany Institute of History and Art, and Senior Research Fellow at the New York State Museum. He is the author of Dutch Colonial Homes in America and Great Houses of New England. Ruth Piwonka is the author of A Portrait of Livingston Manor, 1686–1850 and the coauthor (with Roderic H. Blackburn) of A Visible Heritage: Columbia County, New York: A History in Art and Architecture.

Book History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century written by Mrs Schuyler Van Rensselaer and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century written by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century written by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume II of her ambitious 1909 history of New York City, Van Rensselaer picks up in 1664 during the reconstruction of New Netherland following its loss to England and goes on to chart the city's changing character as the Dutch and English vie for political and cultural influence. Growing by fits and starts, this city of only several thousand people is revealed in all its awkward infancy, from its early revolts and uprisings through its command by the militia in 1689-1691. This is a fascinating and detailed account, perfect for students, historians, and anyone with an interest in pre-Revolutionary New York. Devoted to the study of art and architecture, American author MARIANA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER (1851-1934) was born in New York City and was an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. In a rare accomplishment for a woman at the time, she received a doctorate of literature from Columbia University in 1910. Her other books include English Cathedrals, Art Out of Doors, and One Man Who Was Content.

Book The Ordeal of the Longhouse

Download or read book The Ordeal of the Longhouse written by Daniel K. Richter and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers.

Book Biographical Guide to American Literature

Download or read book Biographical Guide to American Literature written by Nicolas Trübner and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographical Guide to American Literature

Download or read book Bibliographical Guide to American Literature written by Nicolas Trübner and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tr  bner s Bibliographical Guide to American Literature

Download or read book Tr bner s Bibliographical Guide to American Literature written by Nicolas Trübner and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tr  bner s Bibliographical Guide to American Literature  being a classified list of books  in all departments of Literature and Science  published in the United States of America during the last forty years  With an introduction  notes  three appendices and an index

Download or read book Tr bner s Bibliographical Guide to American Literature being a classified list of books in all departments of Literature and Science published in the United States of America during the last forty years With an introduction notes three appendices and an index written by Nicolas Trübner and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography  Beeing a Catalogue of Books Relating to the American Indians in the Library of Thomas W  Field

Download or read book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography Beeing a Catalogue of Books Relating to the American Indians in the Library of Thomas W Field written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography  Being a Catalogue Relating to the History  Antiquities  Languages  Customs  Religion  Wars  Literature and Origin of the American Indians

Download or read book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography Being a Catalogue Relating to the History Antiquities Languages Customs Religion Wars Literature and Origin of the American Indians written by Th. W. Field and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography

Download or read book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography written by Thomas Warren Field and published by New York : Scribner, Armstrong. This book was released on 1873 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    An    Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography

Download or read book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography written by Thomas W. FIELD and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An essay towards an Indian bibliography  a catalogue of books  relating to the American Indians  in the library of T W  Field

Download or read book An essay towards an Indian bibliography a catalogue of books relating to the American Indians in the library of T W Field written by Thomas Warren Field and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Manor  Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

Download or read book The Manor Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island written by Mac Griswold and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large—twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide—had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, New York, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, The Manor is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering. It is a monumental achievement.

Book Good order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in America

Download or read book Good order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in America written by Thomas Budd and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: