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Author_Susanah Shaw Romney
Beverwijck
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colonial Albany
colonial New York
diplomacy and the Munsee Indians
Dutch empire
Dutch New York
Dutch West India Company
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Hackensacky Indians
Indians on colonial Long Island
Mohawk Indians and the fur trade
Montauk Indian history
Native American history in colonial New York
New Amsterdam
New Netherland
seventeenth-century Amsterdam
seventeenth-century women's legal rights
women and trade in early America
women in colonial America
women in Golden Age Holland
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- ISBN 9781469633480
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 162 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2017
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within an Atlantic economy and the nascent colony of New Netherland. In the greater Hudson Valley, Dutch newcomers, Native American residents, and enslaved Africans wove a series of intimate networks that reached from the West India Company slave house on Manhattan, to the Haudenosaunee longhouses along the Mohawk River, to the inns and alleys of maritime Amsterdam.
Using vivid stories culled from Dutch-language archives, Romney brings to the fore the essential role of women in forming and securing these relationships, and she reveals how a dense web of these intimate networks created imperial structures from the ground up. These structures were equally dependent on male and female labor and rested on small- and large-scale economic exchanges between people from all backgrounds. This work pioneers a new understanding of the development of early modern empire as arising out of personal ties.
Using vivid stories culled from Dutch-language archives, Romney brings to the fore the essential role of women in forming and securing these relationships, and she reveals how a dense web of these intimate networks created imperial structures from the ground up. These structures were equally dependent on male and female labor and rested on small- and large-scale economic exchanges between people from all backgrounds. This work pioneers a new understanding of the development of early modern empire as arising out of personal ties.
Susanah Shaw Romney is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.
