| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Donna Merwick. The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland. (Early American Studies.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 332. $49.95.

Donna Merwick intended her most recent book to be not only "properly researched and presented" history, but also "a step forward in the journey that history writing is always undertaking" (p. 332). Like her previous book, Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York (1999), which experimented with tense and documents-that-might-have-been, this one pushes the boundaries of academic history. Historians appear in her scenes along with historical characters, and they occasionally interact. At one point she describes Peter Stuyvesant, the long-dead final governor of New Netherland, listening in and "nodding in agreement" as a group of modern historians discuss theories of colonialism (p. 260). Merwick's pulling the governor into the present, while disorienting, is also illuminating. Putting Stuyvesant in the same room with a bunch of living historians, however artificial the construct might be, reasserts his reality, his enduring presence.

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