Stuyvesant Bound
Donna Merwick
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Description for Stuyvesant Bound
Hardcover. Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative, compelling reassessment of the last Director-General of New Netherland. Donna Merwick employs a multidisciplinary approach to examine the layers of culture within which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career and performed his identity. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of culture in which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career and performed his responsibilities, ultimately reappraising the view of Stuyvesant long held by the majority of U.S. historians and commentators.
Borrowing its form from the genre of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century learned essays, Stuyvesant Bound invites the reader to step into a premodern worldview as Merwick considers Stuyvesant's role in history from the perspectives of duty, belief, and loss. Stuyvesant is presented as a mid-seventeenth-century magistrate obliged by his official ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Early American Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812245035
SKU
V9780812245035
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Ref
99-15
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 many books, including The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland, also available ... Read more
Reviews for Stuyvesant Bound
"Donna Merwick's latest book, Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time, takes a fresh look at New Netherland's last and longest-serving director, Peter Stuyvesant. Merwick's exploration of this leader of the Dutch outpost on the Hudson reveals her to be a scholar at the peak of her powers. . . . This evocative work shows how much a career's ... Read more