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Peter Rose explores the food, drink and celebrations of the Hudson Valley Dutch in this comprehensive look at its importance and influence in early American life. Recipes are included.

Read about how Kiliaen van Rensselaer, one of the founding directors of the Dutch West India Company, helped establish the New Netherland colony.

Historian Firth Fabend, answers the question, "What Was New Netherland?" In this book she writes about the background, the people, and their legacy covering a lot of history in a few pages.

Drawing on the latest research, leading scholars shed new light on the culture, society, and legacy of the New Netherland colony.

In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today.

Jaap Jacobs offers distinctive examples of the economic colonization of New Amsterdam compared to that of the English colonies in North America.

This comprehensive guide to touring important sites of New York's Dutch history serves as an engrossing cultural and historical reference.

This edition provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century.

The 400-year anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River provides a vantage point for understanding how the Dutch have influenced lower Manhattan.

Hudson's 1609 voyage to America ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent, teeming with untapped natural resources.

Three strong-minded Dutch-American women, related to each other by marriage, deal with the privations of life in a wilderness community.