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Book Review


New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America. By Jaap Jacobs. (Leiden: Brill, 2005. xx, 559 pp. $195.00, ISBN 90-04-12906-5.)
In this remarkable study Jaap Jacobs draws readers into two cultures. The first is that of the Dutch men and women who, within some forty years after 1624, transformed New Netherland from a trading post into a settler society. This transformation occurred slowly and almost never as the result of a long-range vision. Despite the conflict between the centralizing impulses of the West India Company and the independence sought by land-oriented patroons and, later, Manhattan Island burghers, by 1664 possibly eight thousand New Netherlanders had managed to construct cohesive societies across Long Island and along the Hudson and Delaware rivers. Replication of the institutions and mentalité of the republic at home contributed greatly to this cohesiveness and success. . . .
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