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New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America

New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America

Romney, Susanah Shaw

Paperback

Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

Colonial Period (1600-1775)General European HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 1469633485
ISBN13: 9781469633480
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Feb 1 2017
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within an Atlantic economy and the nascent colony of New Netherland. In the greater Hudson Valley, Dutch newcomers, Native American residents, and enslaved Africans wove a series of intimate networks that reached from the West India Company slave house on Manhattan, to the Haudenosaunee longhouses along the Mohawk River, to the inns and alleys of maritime Amsterdam.

Using vivid stories culled from Dutch-language archives, Romney brings to the fore the essential role of women in forming and securing these relationships, and she reveals how a dense web of these intimate networks created imperial structures from the ground up. These structures were equally dependent on male and female labor and rested on small- and large-scale economic exchanges between people from all backgrounds. This work pioneers a new understanding of the development of early modern empire as arising out of personal ties.

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