Jaap Jacobs
Auteur de The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America
A propos de l'auteur
Jaap Jacobs is Honorary Lecture at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the author of many books, including The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America. L.H. Roper is Professor of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His books afficher plus include The English Empire in American, 1602-1658: Reyond Jamestown. afficher moins
Œuvres de Jaap Jacobs
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- Nom canonique
- Jacobs, Jaap
- Date de naissance
- 1963-06-17
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Netherlands
- Lieu de naissance
- Leiden, Netherlands
- Études
- Leiden University
- Professions
- historian
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- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 111
- Popularité
- #175,484
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
- Langues
- 1
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Here is the goldmine the rest of us have been waiting for, first hinted at by Russell Shorto: the day to day company directives, political posturing, threats, arm-wrestling, negotiations, defeats and triumphs as well as the logic behind the decisions; for example, on fur trade restrictions and then policy reversal. I started marking pages I found particularly interesting, but now have virtually the entire book to go over again. Beautifully organized and written, rare variations in common English grammar usage by the author only bring us back to the realization that one of America's first major colonies was not English-speaking, and I found that delightful in itself.
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