The Dutch-American Farm
Author : David S. Cohen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1993-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0814715001
Author : David S. Cohen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1993-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0814715001
Author : David Steven Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780814714546
A rich and readable source of information and interpretation. -New York History. Cohen presents a detailed description of the everyday life of early Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey. He gives special attention to the rise of the Dutch Reformed Church in these areas, and particularly the denomination's transformation into a subculture that could truly be considered American. -Bookman's Weekly An impressive study of material culture -Choice
Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 1997-11-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780803289659
Describes the challenges and rewards faced by modern farms in the Midwest, and looks at the seasonal milestones of rural life
Author : Evan Haefeli
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0812208951
The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion." For early American historians this statement, unique in the world at its time, lies at the root of American pluralism. New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty offers a new reading of the way tolerance operated in colonial America. Using sources in several languages and looking at laws and ideas as well as their enforcement and resistance, Evan Haefeli shows that, although tolerance as a general principle was respected in the colony, there was a pronounced struggle against it in practice. Crucial to the fate of New Netherland were the changing religious and political dynamics within the English empire. In the end, Haefeli argues, the most crucial factor in laying the groundwork for religious tolerance in colonial America was less what the Dutch did than their loss of the region to the English at a moment when the English were unusually open to religious tolerance. This legacy, often overlooked, turns out to be critical to the history of American religious diversity. By setting Dutch America within its broader imperial context, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty offers a comprehensive and nuanced history of a conflict integral to the histories of the Dutch republic, early America, and religious tolerance.
Author : Brian W. Beltman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Dutch Americans
ISBN : 9780252021954
The letters Dutch immigrant Ulbe Eringa wrote home from the United States are rich with information on farming, the family, the household economy, church activities, and school involvement as he related them to his relatives back in the Netherlands. His memoirs, written in 1942 and 1943, supplement the letters and provide details about his life before emigrating. Brian Beltman's introduction and chapter-by-chapter commentary place Eringa's story within its historical context, complementing findings that there has been more continuity than discontinuity between the European past and the American ethnic experience.
Author : Hans Krabbendam
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438430133
A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.
Author : Mark L. Louden
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1421418282
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. What Is Pennsylvania Dutch? -- CHAPTER 2. Early History of Pennsylvania Dutch -- CHAPTER 3. Pennsylvania Dutch, 1800-1860 -- CHAPTER 4. Profiles in Pennsylvania Dutch Literature -- CHAPTER 5. Pennsylvania Dutch in the Public Eye -- CHAPTER 6. Pennsylvania Dutch and the Amish and Mennonites -- CHAPTER 7. An American Story -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Author : Jaap Jacobs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801475160
The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley region. In The Colony of New Netherland, Jaap Jacobs offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch colony on the Hudson from the first trading voyages in the 1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English. As Jacobs shows, New Netherland offers a distinctive example of economic colonization and in its social and religious profile represents a noteworthy divergence from the English colonization in North America. Centered around New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan, the colony extended north to present-day Schenectady, New York, east to central Connecticut, and south to the border shared by Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, leaving an indelible imprint on the culture, political geography, and language of the early modern mid-Atlantic region. Dutch colonists' vivid accounts of the land and people of the area shaped European perceptions of this bountiful land; their own activities had a lasting effect on land use and the flora and fauna of New York State, in particular, as well as on relations with the Native people with whom they traded. Sure to become readers' first reference to this crucial phase of American early colonial history, The Colony of New Netherland is a multifaceted and detailed depiction of life in the colony, from exploration and settlement through governance, trade, and agriculture. Jacobs gives a keen sense of the built environment and social relations of the Dutch colonists and closely examines the influence of the church and the social system adapted from that of the Dutch Republic. Although Jacobs focuses his narrative on the realities of quotidian existence in the colony, he considers that way of life in the broader context of the Dutch Atlantic and in comparison to other European settlements in North America.
Author : Allan Kulikoff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807860786
With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society. Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.
Author : J. M. Opal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812240627
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged. Beyond the Farm blends biography, social history, and cultural history to describe and explain that change.