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The Ancient House: Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands

The Ancient House: Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands

Paperback

Series: The David J. Weber the New Borderlands History

Native American HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)Regional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 1469693798
ISBN13: 9781469693798
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
While New Amsterdam has captured public imagination and scholarly attention for centuries, the Dutch borderland settlement that became Albany, New York, was no less vital to the development of early America. In The Ancient House, historian Erin Kramer examines how early relationships between the Dutch and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) built a foundation for the town's oversized role in European and Indigenous diplomacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Albany (called the ancient house by a Haudenosaunee orator) was an essential space where Indigenous people articulated what it meant for Europeans to settle in their world. Kramer illustrates how Haudenosaunee people shaped the town, its politics, and the laws enforced there through a century of negotiations, and how they sought redress and hold colonists to their agreements. By incorporating Haudenosaunee stories into the broader narrative of New York history, The Ancient House reveals how Albany became a negotiated community, a site of dialogue, and a critical central place in early America.

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