Revisiting New New Netherland: Perspectives on Early Dutch America

Joyce D. Goodfriend, Ph.D. (1975) in History, University of California, Los Angeles, is Professor of History at the University of Denver. She is the author of Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 (Princeton 1992) as well as numerous essays on the Dutch in early America.

This book of essays samples current scholarship on New Netherland, touching on topics such as New Netherland in Historical Memory. New Netherland in the Atlantic World, the Political Economy of New Netherland, and New Netherland's Directors.

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction, Joyce D. Goodfriend NEW NETHERLAND AND HISTORICAL MEMORY 1. Inventing Memory: Picturing New Netherland in the Nineteenth Century, Annette Stott 2. The Walloon and Huguenot Elements in New Netherland and Seventeenth-Century New York: Identity, History and Memory, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke NEW NETHERLAND IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD 3. The Place of New Netherland in the West India Company's Grand Scheme, Wim Klooster 4. New Sweden: An Interpretation, Richard Waldron THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEW NETHERLAND 5. Securing the Burgher Right in New Amsterdam: The Struggle for Municipal Citizenship in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World, Dennis J. Maika 6. Joris Dopzen's Hog and Other Stories: Artisans and the Making of New Amsterdam, Simon Middleton NEW NETHERLAND'S DIRECTORS: A NEW LOOK 7. Neglected Networks: Director Willem Kieft (1602-1647) and his Dutch Relatives, Willem Frijhoff 8. Like Father, Like Son? The Early Years of Petrus Stuyvesant, Jaap Jacobs FAMILY RESEARCH AS A KEY TO NEW NETHERLAND'S HISTORY 9. The State of New Netherland Genealogical Research-2001, Harry Macy, Jr. 10. Sex and the City: Relations Between Men and Women in New Netherland, Firth Haring Fabend WRITING THE HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 11. A Survey of Documents Relating to the History of New Netherland, Charles Gehring 12. Tying the Loose Ends Together: Putting New Netherland Studies on a Par with the Study of Other Regions, David William Voorhees Index