The Shame and the Sorrow : : Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland / / Donna Merwick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• VerfasserIn: Merwick, Donna,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2006
• Ano de Publicação: 2013
• Idioma: English
• Colecção: Early American Studies
• Descrição Física: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 20 illus.

The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Man...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Maps
• Soundings
• PART I. Alongshore
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Alongshore: Stories to Tell of the Virginias
• Chapter 2. "The Island"
• Part II. Shared Beaches
• Introduction
• Chapter 3. The Quarterdeck and Trading Station
• Chapter 4. Natives and Strangers
• PART III. Staying Alongshore
• Introduction
• Chapter 5. Sovereign People
• Chapter 6. Masters of Their Lands
• Chapter 7. Inland Drownings
• PART IV. Omens of a Tragedy Coming On
• Introduction
• Chapter 8. Bells of War
• Chapter 9. "Only This and Nothing More"
• Chapter 10. The Connecticut Valley: The Strangers' Ways of Violence
• PART V. Deadly Encounter
• Introduction
• Chapter 11. The Indian War Seen
• Chapter 12. The Indian War Given Words
• Chapter 13. The War's Haunting
• PART VI. Cross-Colonization
• Introduction
• Chapter 14. Watchful Waiting
• Chapter 15. Alongshore Compromised
• Chapter 16. Considerations on a Just War
• PART VII. Final Logged Entries
• Introduction
• Chapter 17. Cultural Entanglement
• Chapter 18. No Closure
• Weighing Up
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments