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Beverwijck : a Dutch village on the American frontier, 1652-1664 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hilversum, the Netherlands : Albany :
Verloren ; State University of New York Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Beverwijck
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Problem defined
- Historiography and definition
- Method and sources
- I. Constructing a Village: material planning
- Van Slichtenhorst, Rensselaerswijck, and the Indians
- Van Slichtenhorst and Van Twiller's rule in Rensselaerswijck
- Van Slichtenhorst and the Machicans
- Van Slichtenhorst and the Maquaes
- Planning a center for Rensselaerswijck
- Value of maps
- Building a bijeenwoninge
- Company versus patroon: Escalation of the conflict
- Developement of BeverwijckDistributing Patents
- Laying out the village
- Roads and Bridges
- Lots and fences
- Houses
- Other spaces and construction on the lots
- Gardens
- Constructions of general interest to the community
- Corps de guarde
- The Blockhouse church
- The poor house
- A school
- Mills
- Brick and tile yards
- Indian accommodations
- Palisades
- Conclusion
- II. Beverwijck: Creating an orderly village
- Beverwijck's society
- A mix of people
- Burghership
- The burgher gaurd
- Community feelings
- Forced labor: SlavesStabilizing factors in a new society: The State
- The court
- Orphan masters
- Medical care
- Stabilizing factors in a new society: The church
- Church and state
- A public church
- The minister
- The consistory
- Other church functions
- Education
- Charity
- A new environment: Contact with Indians
- Beavers and sewant as currency
- Meetings and the exchange of gifts
- Communication: Maintaining an iron chain
- Indian-Dutch relationships
- Conclusion
- III. The Van Rensselaers as commercial entrepreneurs
- Trade in the upper HudsonThe trading season
- Trade items
- Trade regulations
- The role of women
- The Van Rensselaers and the trade
- Maintaining the trade in Amsterdam
- Maintaining the trade in New Netherland during Jan Baptist's directorship
- Maintaining the trade in New Netherland during Jeremias' directorship
- Place in the community: Life style
- The patroon's property in Beverwijck
- The patroon's house on the inside
- Outer appearence: Clothing
- Social life: The importance of friends
- Social life: Maintaining friendships in the New WorldChurch memberships
- Marriage
- Family life: Illness, children, and friends
- Conclusion
- IV. Successful burghers
- Dirck Jansz Croon
- Active in two worlds
- Back in Amsterdam
- A family trading network
- Pieter Hartgers
- Family ties
- An active community member
- A farewell to Beverwijck
- Volckert Jansz
- Early arrival and trade
- Cooperation and investment in land
- A German Lutheran in a Dutch Reformed village
- Philip Pietersz Schuyler
- Gunstocks, marriage, and trade