| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland. By Donna Merwick. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. x, 332 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-3928-7.)

This is not the book to begin one's study of Dutch-Amerindian encounters in New Netherland. Begin instead with Paul Otto's The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America (2006). Those readers with more than an elementary knowledge of New Netherland, or those interested in the history of Dutch overseas expansion in the seventeenth century, will profit from Donna Merwick's deeply interpretive history of how the Dutch processed their encounters with Indians around Manhattan Island and eventually "acted out a betrayal of ideals and accepted values: betrayal of themselves and others" (p. 267).

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