The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland

by Donna Merwick

Book Overview

The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they intended to be overseas the tolerant, pluralistic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812222725
• ISBN13: 9780812222722
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"