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The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland

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Description for The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland Paperback. During the forty years of the Dutch presence in colonial America, their intrusion led to the betrayal of their own values and the betrayal of the indigenous peoples. They reaped the shame of reproaching themselves for unjust wars and faced a native insurgency that they could neither negotiate nor satisfactorily quell. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.

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 Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they intended to be overseas the tolerant, pluralistic, and antimilitaristic people they thought themselves to be—and in so many respects were—at home, but they were not.

For the Dutch intruders, establishing a settled ... Read more

How are the Dutch to be judged? Donna Merwick, in The Shame and the Sorrow, asks this question. She points to a betrayal both of their own values and of the native peoples. She also directs us to the self-delusion of hegemonic control. Her work belongs alongside the best of today's postcolonial studies in the description of cross-cultural violence and subtle questioning of the nature of writing its history.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Early American Studies
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812222722
SKU
V9780812222722
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About Donna Merwick
Donna Merwick is Senior Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Long Term Visiting Fellow at Australian National University, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Swinburne Institute for Social Research at the Swinburne University of Technology. She is the author of Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time, also available from University of Pennsylvania Press, ... Read more

Reviews for The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland
"Merwick is unafraid of 'weighing up' the evidence carefully to recapture the 'moral murkiness' that dominated seventeenth-century Netherlanders' efforts. . . . [A] beautifully constructed work."—Australasian Journal of American Studies "Merwick's book is certainly interesting, often beautifully written, but it is also a strong contribution to historical scholarship."—American Historical Review

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