Explorers, Fortunes, and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland

A collection of essays in praise of New Netherland,

designed to appeal to a general audience as well as to scholars

Publication: April 2009, Mount Ida Press, Albany, NY

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

              Martha Dickinson Shattuck

Three Conversations

              Russell Shorto

Henry Hudson: New World, New World View

              William T. Reynolds

The Native-Dutch Experience in the Mohawk Valley

              William A. Starna

Jews in New Netherland: An Atlantic Perspective

              Noah L. Gelfand

Fortune in the New World: Jan Jansz Damen in America

              Jaap Jacobs

              Translated by Elisabeth Paling Funk

Barber-Surgeons in New Netherland and Early New York

              Peter R. Christoph

Glimpses of Childhood in the Colony of New Netherland

              Adriana E. van Zwieten                                                                                               

Bread: Staff of Dutch Life in the Old and New World

              Peter G. Rose

From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam:

        Washington Irving, the Dutch St. Nicholas, and the American Santa Claus

              Elisabeth Paling Funk

Searching for True Love: Letters From Kiliaen van Rennsselaer

              Janny Venema

Family and Faction: The Dutch Roots of Colonial New York’s Factional Politics

              David William Voorhees

Why New Netherland Matters

              Joyce D. Goodfriend

Contributors

Index