New Netherland Connections
Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
By Susanah Shaw Romney
336 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 6 halftones, 1 map, notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-3348-0
Published: February 2017 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-1426-7
Published: April 2014
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Awards & distinctions
2014 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize
Annual Hendricks Award for 2013, New Netherland Institute
2013 Jamestown Prize, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
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.
About the Author
Susanah Shaw Romney is assistant professor of history at New York University.
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“An excellent book that is narrowly focused with wide implications.”--Itinerario
“An innovative and important addition to the thriving field of New Netherland studies, as well as to the study of early modern European colonization.”--William & Mary Quarterly
“Romney offers a complex, refreshing view of the Dutch Atlantic world, constituting a much-needed intervention in the field of New Netherland studies.”--Choice
“An important book in demonstrating how early modern empires were built and functioned and how inhabitants from all social ranks on both sides of the Atlantic negotiated and made sense of their place within empire.”--de Halve Maen
"[Romney] has given historians a new way of conceptualizing and understanding Atlantic world empires."--American Historical Review
“Critically engages Dutch and American historiographies of colonization while presenting a suggestive new approach for understanding empires as social networks based in intimacy.”--The Journal of American History