Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Willem Usselinx
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Willem Usselinx
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Holland on the Hudson
Author: Oliver A. RinkPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801495854
Category : Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Holland on the Hudson traces the history of New Netherland from Henry Hudson's exploration of the region in 1609 to the surrender of the Dutch colony to an English fleet in 1664. Oliver A. Rink's approach is both narrative an analytic as he describes in detail the colony's commercial origins, its social and economic development, and the colonists' rivalry with the English in the New World.
Willem Usselinx: Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies (1887)
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781104556396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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Willem Usselinx
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781344834087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
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Willem Usselinx
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484776707
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Excerpt from Willem Usselinx: Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies As to books, contemporary or more recent, I have not knowingly neglected any, in any of the libraries hereafter mentioned, which might give me information concerning Usselinx or those portions of the history of his times which I needed to know. In the case of certain books not obtain able in this country, transcripts of the desired passages have been made for me, especially by the kind care of Messrs. Frederik Muller and Company, of Amsterdam. With the ex ception of these cases, all references have been made at first hand, except that once or twice a friend has verified for me a reference to a book which I had previously examined, but needed to consult anew on some detail for I have had to examine these widely scattered books when I could. I have not thought it worth while to include a bibliography of such books. Such lists of authorities consulted are of little real utility in such a book; the references in footnotes suffice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Contest for the Delaware Valley
Author: Mark L. ThompsonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807150606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
In the first major examination of the diverse European efforts to colonize the Delaware Valley, Mark L. Thompson offers a bold new interpretation of ethnic and national identities in colonial America. For most of the seventeenth century, the lower Delaware Valley remained a marginal area under no state's complete control. English, Dutch, and Swedish colonizers all staked claims to the territory, but none could exclude their rivals for long -- in part because Native Americans in the region encouraged the competition. Officials and settlers alike struggled to determine which European nation would possess the territory and what liberties settlers would keep after their own colonies had surrendered. The resulting struggle for power resonated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. While the rivalry promoted patriots who trumpeted loyalties to their sovereigns and nations, it also rewarded cosmopolitans who struck deals across imperial, colonial, and ethnic boundaries. Just as often it produced men -- such as Henry Hudson, Willem Usselincx, Peter Minuit, and William Penn -- who did both. Ultimately, The Contest for the Delaware Valley shows how colonists, officials, and Native Americans acted and reacted in inventive, surprising ways. Thompson demonstrates that even as colonial spokesmen debated claims and asserted fixed national identities, their allegiances -- along with the settlers' -- often shifted and changed. Yet colonial competition imposed limits on this fluidity, forcing officials and settlers to choose a side. Offering their allegiances in return for security and freedom, colonial subjects turned loyalty into liberty. Their stories reveal what it meant to belong to a nation in the early modern Atlantic world.
The Slave Trade
Author: Hugh ThomasPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476737452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hugh Thomas describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time, but to answer controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated.
Willem Usselinx, Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies
Author: J. F. JamesonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780795042133
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Some Account of William Usselinx and Peter Minuit
Author: Charles Payson MalleryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delaware
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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