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A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.

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Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies. Biennial Conference

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 300


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Papers from the 2015 AADAS Conference
Excerpt from Thirty-Seven Years of Holland-American Relations, 1803 to 1840: Thesis During the past three centuries several lines of connec tion, more or less important according to one's point of view, have existed between The Netherlands and the American continent. The earliest and best known of these Holland American relations dates from the year 1609, when the dis coveries of an English sea captain, Henry Hudson, in the employ of a Dutch commercial company, established for the Republic of Holland a claim to the region which came to be known as New Netherland, lying between the Delaware and Connecticut rivers. Discovery was followed by occupation; trading stations were founded to develop the new line of trade with the Indians, and colonists were sent in to found settlements along the Hudson or to find employment on the semi-feudal estates of the patroons. In 1621 the Dutch West India Company was organized, with supreme power of gov erning the newly acquired region in the name of the Estates General. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This volume of essays by historians and archaeologists offers an introduction to the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, as well as their extensive and intensive relationships with its Indigenous peoples. Often associated with the Hudson River Valley, New Netherland actually extended westward into present day New Jersey and Delaware and eastward to Cape Cod. Further, New Netherland was not merely a clutch of Dutch trading posts: settlers accompanied the Dutch traders, and Dutch colonists founded towns and villages along Long Island Sound, the mid-Atlantic coast, and up the Connecticut, Hudson, and Delaware River valleys. Unfortunately, few nonspecialists are aware of this history, especially in what was once eastern and western New Netherland (southern New England and the Delaware River Valley, respectively), and the essays collected here help strengthen the case that the Dutch deserve a more prominent position in future history books, museum exhibits, and school curricula than they have previously enjoyed. The archaeological content includes descriptions of both recent excavations and earlier, unpublished archaeological investigations that provide new and exciting insights into Dutch involvement in regional histories, particularly within Long Island Sound and inland New England. Although there were some incidences of cultural conflict, the archaeological and documentary findings clearly show the mutually tolerant, interdependent nature of Dutch-Indigenous relationships through time. One of the essays, by a Mohawk community member, provides a thought-provoking Indigenous perspective on Dutch–Native American relationships that complements and supplements the considerations of his fellow writers. The new archaeological and ethnohistoric information in this book sheds light on the motives, strategies, and sociopolitical maneuvers of seventeenth-century Native leadership, and how Indigenous agency helped shape postcontact histories in the American Northeast.