The shame and the sorrow [electronic resource] : Dutch-Amerindian encounters in New Netherland / Donna Merwick.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvannia Press, c2006 2013) 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (viii, 332 p.) :) ill., maps, digital fileISBN:- 9780812202809
- 974.7/02 22
- F122.1 .M53 2006
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.
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