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Book/Printed Material Exploring historic Dutch New York : New York City, Hudson Valley, New Jersey, and Delaware

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Title

  • Exploring historic Dutch New York : New York City, Hudson Valley, New Jersey, and Delaware

Summary

  • "This comprehensive guide to touring important sites of Dutch history serves as an engrossing cultural and historical reference. A variety of internationally renowned scholars explore Dutch art in the Metropolitan Museum, Dutch cooking, Dutch architecture, Dutch immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, English words of Dutch origin, Dutch furniture and antiques, and much more. Color photographs and maps throughout."--Publisher's description.

Names

  • Scheltema, Gajus, 1952- editor.
  • Westerhuijs, Heleen, editor.
  • Shorto, Russell, editor.
  • Museum of the City of New York.

Created / Published

  • [New York] : Museum of the City of New York : Dover Publications, [2011]
  • ©2011

Contents

  • A short history of New Netherland -- New Netherland on old maps -- Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Remembering the Dutch -- The Dutch influence on the American kitchen -- Double Dutch -- Holland mania -- What's in a name? -- New Netherland's architecture -- Dutch footprints on Staten Island -- the Knickerbocker story -- Dutch immigrants after the 17th century -- The first Jews in New Amsterdam -- The Dutch Reformed Church in New Netherland and in British Colonial America -- American-Dutch antiques -- The enslaved Africans and Native Americans -- Dutch words in American English.

Headings

  • -  Dutch--New York Region--History--Miscellanea
  • -  New Netherland--History--Miscellanea
  • -  New York Region--Description and travel
  • -  Dutch
  • -  Travel
  • -  United States--New Netherland
  • -  United States--New York Region

Genre

  • History
  • Trivia and miscellanea

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-239) and index.

Medium

  • 253 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F128.9.D9 E96 2011

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019301028

OCLC Number

  • n724664909

Reproduction Number

  • SAN 201-338X

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Chicago citation style:

Scheltema, Gajus, Editor, and Museum Of The City Of New York. Exploring historic Dutch New York: New York City, Hudson Valley, New Jersey, and Delaware. editeds by Westerhuijs, Heleen, and Shorto, Russell [New York: Museum of the City of New York: Dover Publications, ©, 2011]

APA citation style:

Scheltema, G. & Museum Of The City Of New York, Westerhuijs, H. & Shorto, R., eds. (2011) Exploring historic Dutch New York: New York City, Hudson Valley, New Jersey, and Delaware. [New York: Museum of the City of New York: Dover Publications, ©]

MLA citation style:

Scheltema, Gajus, Editor, and Museum Of The City Of New York. Exploring historic Dutch New York: New York City, Hudson Valley, New Jersey, and Delaware. ed by Westerhuijs, Heleen, and Shorto, Russell [New York: Museum of the City of New York: Dover Publications, ©, 2011]