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Book Review

Comparative/World

Joyce D. Goodfriend, editor. Revisiting New Netherland: Perspectives on Early Dutch America. (The Atlantic World: Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500–1830, number 4.) Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. xiii, 345. $179.00.
This collection of essays, edited by Joyce D. Goodfriend, invites readers to consider an earlier scholarly visit made to New Netherland studies in 1988: Colonial Dutch Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach, edited by Eric Nooter and Patricia U. Bonomi. The series title in which the present book appears situates New Netherland in an Atlantic world and flags the most significant difference between it and its predecessor. Several contributors make the transatlantic connection more strenuously than others. But all recognize that exploring New Netherland (later New York) now requires a concern for regionalism, the transatlantic cultural surroundings of seemingly local political and religious issues, and relationship networks that went well beyond geographical boundaries.	1
Three of the thirteen writers cross the Atlantic in particularly effective ways, each making extensive use of seventeenth-century Dutch sources. Willem Frijhoff, in "Neglected Networks: Director Willem Kieft (1602–1647) and His Dutch Relatives," takes a seemingly dull genealogical subject and makes it especially engaging. In part, he achieves this by presenting his research as a process of discovery. Thus readers accompany him as his research in Holland's records help him answer why Kieft was appointed as director of New Netherland by the West India Company when, in its generally accepted histories, he was such an egregious failure. Frijhoff is among the few essayists here openly reflective about the task of writing history. Thus, Kieft's densely tangled friendship networks are like other linkages in the past: "once you are ready to see them, they become self-evident and appear to play an overwhelming role" (p. 156).	. . .

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