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The Shame and the Sorrow : Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland /
How are the Dutch to be judged? Donna Merwick, in The Shame and the Sorrow, asks this question. She points to a betrayal both of their own values and of the native peoples. She also directs us to the self-delusion of hegemonic control. Her work belongs alongside the best of today's postcolonial...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvannia Press,
2006
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| Colección: | Early American series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of maps
- Soundings
- Part I. Alongshore. 1. Alongshore: Stories to tell of the Virginias; 2. "The Island"
- Part II. Shared beaches. 3. The quarterdeck and trading station; 4. Natives and strangers
- Part III. Staying alongshore. 5. Sovereign people; Masters of their lands; 7. Inland drownings
- Park IV. Omens of a tragedy coming on. 8. Bells of war; 9. "Only this and nothing more"; 10. The Connecticut Valley: the strangers' ways of violence
- Part V. Deadly encounter. 11. The Indian War seen; 12. The Indian War given words; 13. The War's haunting
- Part VI. Cross-colonization. 14. Watchful waiting; 15. Alongshore compromised; 16. Considerations on a just war
- Part VII. Final logged entries. 17. Cultural entanglement
- No closure
- Weighing up
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.