Adriaen van der Donck

Broschiertes Buch

A Description of New Netherland

Beschreibung

Provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century.

Autor

Charles T. Gehring is the director of the New Netherland Project with the New York State Library and the coeditor of numerous collections of original documents from Dutch New Netherland. William A. Starna is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta and a coeditor of Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers (Nebraska 2007). Gehring and Starna coedited A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635: The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert and (with Dean R. Snow) In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives of a Native People.   Diederik Willem Goedhuys is a native of the Netherlands and thirty year resident of South Africa. In addition to having knowledge of Dutch, Afrikaans, and English at his disposal, he also spent several months at the New Netherland Project in Albany, New York, where he had access to the best reference sources for the translation of a seventeenth-century publication.

Produktdetails

• The Iroquoians and Their World
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780803232839
• ISBN-10: 0803232837
• Artikelnr.: 28118387