A firm peace and sincere friendship? : four hundred years Dutch-American stories / Jaap Jacobs (ed.).
| Other author | Jacobs, Jaap, 1963- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press B.V., [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 303 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface / Shefali Razdan Duggal, United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands -- Preface / Birgitta Tazelaar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United States of America -- Foreword: A question mark? / Jaap Jacobs -- A Dutch-American perspective / Russell Shorto -- 'Even old New York was once New Amsterdam' / Jaap Jacobs -- Mayken's world / Nicole Maskiell -- Mass murder on Manhattan / Mark Meuwese -- Edward Winslow: Anglo-Dutch-American pilgrim / Jeremy D. Bangs -- The tale of the white horse: the first slave trading voyage to New Netherland / Dennis J. Maika -- Sight, sound, touch, and taste: sensing the Dutch in New Netherland / Lavada Nahon -- The Dutch Republic through Bostonian eyes: the travel journals of Jonathan Belcher and Jacob Wendell, 1704-1716 / Sander Rooijakkers -- Johnny goes Dutch / Jaap Jacobs -- Fellow founding fathers: Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp and Thomas Jefferson / Lauren Lauret -- On the first Dutch translation of the U.S. Constitution / Michael J. Douma -- Sweet prospects and a bitter experience: the adventures of Gerrit Boon and Jan Lincklaen / Jaap Jacobs -- Sojourner Truth: how the enslaved woman of a Dutch-New York family became an icon of America's Black liberation movement / Jeroen Dewulf -- John Romeyn Brodhead's hunt for history / Jaap Jacobs -- Rising from the ashes: the afterlife of a phoenix / Joske Meerdink -- "For two years, or perhaps forever": Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley and the artists' colony in Rijsoord / Alexandra van Dongen -- Jane Addams and Aletta Jacobs at the women's congress in The Hague / Mineke Bosch -- Breaking free from a girls' boarding school?: American mass culture and the roaring twenties in the Netherlands / Kees Wouters -- The 'patron saint' of New York? / Jaap Jacobs -- A Dutch prince, his American Jeep, and two female passengers / Dik van der Meulen -- A saber for Eisenhower: forging transatlantic bonds for the twentieth century / Jorrit Steehouder -- Growing up Dutch in Iowa / Valerie Van Kooten -- Recollections and reconnections: war history as family history / Eline Hopperus Buma -- Lady liberty as muse: an inspired Dutch writer's love for the United States of America / Annejet van der Zijl -- Hurley and its history: historical views changing over time / Bas Blokker -- When did it all begin? / Jaap Jacobs. |
| Abstract | "For four centuries, people from the Netherlands have gone to America by boat or plane, to explore the country, to trade, to colonise, to settle, to do business, to find a new future or simply to visit the country as a tourist. And for four centuries, Americans, of diverse backgrounds, of native, African or European descent, have come to the Netherlands. These are their stories. This book begins in the seventeenth century, when settlers commissioned by the West India Company settled on the south side of Manhattan and started a settlement that grew first into New Amsterdam and later into New York City. In 2024, both the Netherlands and the United States will commemorate these beginnings through commemorations, exhibitions, conferences and high-level Dutch visits to New York. 2024 is therefore a prime opportunity to tell the stories of the people who crossed the ocean and shaped the relationship between the Netherlands and the United States, and with New York in particular. The stories have a human touch, an emphasis on the individual as the bearer of one culture interacting with another. Feelings of admiration, liberation, expectation and hope play an important role in the stories. But there are also negative sides to Dutch-American history, for instance when it comes to the relationship with Native Americans and the Dutch role in American slavery. It is not going to be exclusively jubilant: success stories alternate with black pages here."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9789048571536 |
| ISBN | 9048571537 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
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