The shame and the sorrow
Merwick, Donna.
The shame and the sorrow Dutch-Amerindian encounters in New Netherland / [electronic resource] : Donna Merwick. - Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvannia Press, c2006 - 1 online resource (1 electronic text (viii, 332 p.) :) ill., maps, digital file. - Early American studies .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-317) and index.
List of maps -- Soundings -- Part I. Alongshore. 1. Alongshore: Stories to tell of the Virginias; 2. "The Island".-- Part II. Shared beaches. 3. The quarterdeck and trading station; 4. Natives and strangers -- Part III. Staying alongshore. 5. Sovereign people; Masters of their lands; 7. Inland drownings -- Park IV. Omens of a tragedy coming on. 8. Bells of war; 9. "Only this and nothing more"; 10. The Connecticut Valley: the strangers' ways of violence -- Part V. Deadly encounter. 11. The Indian War seen; 12. The Indian War given words; 13. The War's haunting -- Part VI. Cross-colonization. 14. Watchful waiting; 15. Alongshore compromised; 16. Considerations on a just war -- Part VII. Final logged entries. 17. Cultural entanglement -- No closure -- Weighing up -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
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."--Book jacket.
9780812202809
Indians of North America--Wars--New Netherland.
Indians of North America--History.--New Netherland
New Netherland--History.
New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
F122.1 / .M53 2006
974.7/02
The shame and the sorrow Dutch-Amerindian encounters in New Netherland / [electronic resource] : Donna Merwick. - Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvannia Press, c2006 - 1 online resource (1 electronic text (viii, 332 p.) :) ill., maps, digital file. - Early American studies .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-317) and index.
List of maps -- Soundings -- Part I. Alongshore. 1. Alongshore: Stories to tell of the Virginias; 2. "The Island".-- Part II. Shared beaches. 3. The quarterdeck and trading station; 4. Natives and strangers -- Part III. Staying alongshore. 5. Sovereign people; Masters of their lands; 7. Inland drownings -- Park IV. Omens of a tragedy coming on. 8. Bells of war; 9. "Only this and nothing more"; 10. The Connecticut Valley: the strangers' ways of violence -- Part V. Deadly encounter. 11. The Indian War seen; 12. The Indian War given words; 13. The War's haunting -- Part VI. Cross-colonization. 14. Watchful waiting; 15. Alongshore compromised; 16. Considerations on a just war -- Part VII. Final logged entries. 17. Cultural entanglement -- No closure -- Weighing up -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
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."--Book jacket.
9780812202809
Indians of North America--Wars--New Netherland.
Indians of North America--History.--New Netherland
New Netherland--History.
New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
F122.1 / .M53 2006
974.7/02