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Faith and Family
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Robert P. Swierenga
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers

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Swierenga (research professor, A.C. Van Raalte Institute for Historical Studies) presents an account of Dutch immigration to the United States, and the effects
The Forerunners
Language: en
Pages: 488
Authors: Robert P. Swierenga
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-05 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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He details the contributions and the leadership provided by the Dutch Jews and relates how they lost their "Dutchnessand their Orthodoxy within several generati
The Colony of New Netherland
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Jaap Jacobs
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The
Images of Canadianness
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Leen D'Haenens
Categories: Canada
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

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Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and econom
New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Evan Haefeli
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-08 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrec
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