The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley

• Author(s): Jaap Jacobs, L. H. Roper,
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Pages: 277
• ISBN_10: 1438450990
  ISBN_13: 9781438450995
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) , History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) , History / Modern / 17th Century , History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas ,

Description:... This book provides an in-depth introduction to the issues involved in the expansion of European interests to the Hudson River Valley, the cultural interaction that took place there, and the colonization of the region. Written in accessible language by leading scholars, these essays incorporate the latest historical insights as they explore the new world in which American Indians and Europeans interacted, the settlement of the Dutch colony that ensued from the exploration of the Hudson River, and the development of imperial and other networks which came to incorporate the Hudson Valley.