Includes bibliographical references and index. "Papers from the Twentieth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, a joint conference with the New Netherland Institute, Albany, New York, held 17-19 September 2015"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Contemplating, complicating, and comparing the scenes : Elkanah Watson and William Elliot Griffis connect Dutch America to he Netherlands / Babs Boter. "The wilderness has been made to blossom" : nineteenth-century Dutch Immigrants and the natural world / Jan Boersema and Anthonia Boersema-Bremer -- Flexibility or fixed idea : the Dort church order of 1619 as a cultural import in America / Leon van den Broeke -- The changing map of the Dutch American culture region as measured by the spread of Dutch reformed churches, 1664-1846 / Henk Aay -- Helping hands : old Dutch aid young Dutch / Robert P. Swierenga -- El Dorado in the United States : Dutchmen, Dutch Americans, and the quest for gold in Indian country, 1609-1880 / Pieter Hovens -- Prisoners and profiteers : commerce and imperial loyalty on the Albany frontier, 1689-1713 / Erin Kramer -- Albany's commissioners for Indian affairs in colonial New York : the Dutch shaping of Indian diplomacy in the larger British Empire, 1691-1755 / Andrew T. Stahlhut -- Slaveholding : the Dutch Reformed Church's debates of 1855 / Earl Wm. Kennedy -- Of men and words : a Holland debating society / Nella Kennedy -- Remembering the knickerbockers : a lifetime of scholarship on the Dutch American Atlantic / Peter D. Van Cleave -- Contemplating, complicating, and comparing the scenes : Elkanah Watson and William Elliot Griffis connect Dutch America to he Netherlands / Babs Boter.
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