The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley

by Paul Otto

Employing a frontier framework, this book traces intercultural relations in the lower Hudson River valley of early seventeenth-century New Netherland. It explores the interaction between the Dutch and the Munsee Indians and considers how they, and individuals within each group, interacted, focusing in particular on how the changing colonial landscape affected their cultural encounter and Munsee cultural development. At each stage of European colonization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571816720
• ISBN13: 9781571816726
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"