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The island at the center of the world
the epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America
By Shorto, Russell
- ISBN
- 978-0-38550-349-5
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, 2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2004
For this popular narrative, Shorto (Gospel Truth) draws on some 12,000 public and private documents from a Dutch outpost that archivist Charles Gehring painstakingly translated for researchers in the 1960s. Shorto's resulting portrait of the vibrant society that became New York City is an entrancing one, focusing in particular on the oppositional forces of the controlling Peter Stuyvesant and the more tolerant Adriaen Van der Donck, bringing the latter, lesser-known coloni...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
