New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American … and the University of North Carolina Press)

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Susanah Shaw Romney locates the principles of the early up to date Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among men and women. As West India Company ships started sailing westward Within the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within an Atlantic economy and the nascent colony of New Netherland. Within the greater Hudson Valley, Dutch newcomers, Native American residents, and enslaved Africans wove a series of intimate networks that reached from the West India Company slave house on Manhattan, to the Haudenosaunee longhouses along the Mohawk River, to the inns and alleys of maritime Amsterdam.

Using vivid stories culled from Dutch-language archives, Romney brings to the fore the crucial role of women in forming and securing these relationships, and she reveals how a dense internet of these intimate networks created imperial structures from the ground up. These structures were equally dependent on female and male labor and rested on small- and large-scale economic exchanges between people from all backgrounds. This work pioneers a new working out of the advance of early up to date empire as arising out of personal ties.

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