A Description of New Netherland

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0803232837 ISBN13: 9780803232839 Release Date: January 2010 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Length: 204 Pages Weight: 0.65 lbs. Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5" This new edition and original translation of a tract by Dutch settler and lawyer van der Donck makes more widely accessible a document crucial for understanding the history of Dutch colonization in North America. . . . This document is an important primary source for students and researchers in colonial Dutch history, the settlement of New York and North America more generally, and the understanding of Indian cultures in the Northeast. --J. Mercantini, Choice This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century. Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden U