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Informationen zum Autor Donna Merwick is Senior Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Long Term Visiting Fellow at Australian National University, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Swinburne Institute for Social Research at the Swinburne University of Technology. She is the author of Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time, also available from University of Pennsylvania Press, and Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York. Klappentext During the forty years of the Dutch presence in colonial America, their intrusion led to the betrayal of their own values and the betrayal of the indigenous peoples. They reaped the shame of reproaching themselves for unjust wars and faced a native insurgency that they could neither negotiate nor satisfactorily quell. Zusammenfassung During the forty years of the Dutch presence in colonial America! their intrusion led to the betrayal of their own values and the betrayal of the indigenous peoples. They reaped the shame of reproaching themselves for unjust wars and faced a native insurgency that they could neither negotiate nor satisfactorily quell. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 6. Masters of Their Lands 7. Inland Drownings PART 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 18. No Closure Weighing Up Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments ...
