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100 1 $aShorto, Russell.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87933145
245 14 $aThe island at the center of the world :$bthe epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America /$cRussell Shorto.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c2004.
300 $axiv, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 352-372) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: The Missing Floor -- $gPt. I.$t"A Certain Island Named Manathans" -- $g1.$tThe Measure of Things -- $g2.$tThe Pollinator -- $g3.$tThe Island -- $g4.$tThe King, the Surgeon, the Turk, and the Whore -- $gPt. II.$tClash of Wills -- $g5.$tThe Lawman -- $g6.$tThe Council of Blood -- $g7.$tThe Cause -- $g8.$tThe One-Legged Man -- $g9.$tThe General and the Princess -- $g10.$tThe People's Champion -- $g11.$tAn American in Europe -- $g12.$tA Dangerous Man -- $gPt. III.$tThe Inheritance -- $g13.$tBooming -- $g14.$tNew York -- $g15.$tInherited Features -- $tEpilogue: The Paper Trail.
520 1 $a"In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made and astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and reports from a forgotten society: the Dutch colony centered on Manhattan, which predated the thirteen "original" American colonies. For the past thirty years, scholar Charles Gehring has been translating this trove, which was recently declared a national treasure. Now, Russell Shorto has made use of this vital material to construct a sweeping narrative of Manhattan's founding that gives a startling, fresh perspective on how American began." "The Island at the Center of the World strips Manhattan of its asphalt, bringing us back to a wilderness island - a hunting ground for Indians, populated by wolves and bears - that became a prize in the global power struggle between the English and the Dutch. Indeed, Russell Shorto shows that America's founding was not the work of English settlers alone but a result of the clashing of these two seventeenth-century powers. In fact, it was Amsterdam - Europe's most liberal city, with an unusual policy of tolerance and a polyglot society dedicated to free trade - that became the model for the city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan. While the Puritans of New England were founding a society based on tolerance, on Manhattan the Dutch created a free-trade, upwardly mobile melting pot that would help shape not only New York but America." "The story moves from the halls of power in London and The Hague to bloody naval encounters on the high seas. The characters in the saga - the men and women who played a part in Manhattan's founding - range from the philosopher Rene Descartes to James, the Duke of York, to prostitutes and smugglers. At the heart of the story is a bitter power struggle between two men: Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony, and a forgotten American hero named Adriaen van der Donck, a maverick, liberal-minded lawyer whose brilliant political gamesmanship, commitment to individual freedom, and exuberant love of his new country would have a lasting impact on the history of this nation."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMinuit, Peter,$d1580-1638.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93016439
600 10 $aStuyvesant, Peter,$d1592-1672.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85299512
600 10 $aDonck, Adriaen van der,$d1620-1655.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92028709
650 0 $aDutch Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y17th century.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091419
651 0 $aManhattan (New York, N.Y.)$xHistory$y17th century.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xPolitics and government$yTo 1898.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091431
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108454
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