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Title: A Description of New Netherland
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0803232837
EAN: 9780803232839
ISBN: 9780803232839
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 01/01/2010
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 140mm
Author: Adriaen van der Donck
Translator: Diederik Willem Goedhuys
Contributor: Russell Shorto (Foreword by), Charles T. Gehring (Edited by), William A. Starna (Edited by), Diederik Willem Goedhuys (Translated by)
Genre: History
Book Series: Iroquoians and Their World
Release Year: 2010
Description:

This new edition and original translation of a tract by Dutch settler and lawyer van der Donck makes more widely accessible a document crucial for understanding the history of Dutch colonization in North America. . . . This document is an important primary source for students and researchers in colonial Dutch history, the settlement of New York and North America more generally, and the understanding of Indian cultures in the Northeast. —J. Mercantini, Choice 
This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century. Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden University in the 1640s, became the law enforcement officer for the Dutch patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, located along the upper Hudson River. His position enabled him to interact extensively with Dutch colonists and the local Algonquians and Iroquoians. An astute observer, detailed recorder, and accessible writer, Van der Donck was ideally situated to write about his experiences and the natural and cultural worlds around him.
Van der Donck’s Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant was first published in 1655 and then expanded in 1656. An inaccurate and abbreviated English translation appeared in 1841 and was reprinted in 1968. This new volume features an accurate, polished translation by Diederik Willem Goedhuys and includes all the material from the original 1655 and 1656 editions.
The result is an indispensable first-hand account with enduring value to historians, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists. 

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