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Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586-1643) : designing a new world / Janny Venema.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venema, Janny.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rensselaer, Kiliaen van, 1580?-1646.
- Rensselaer, Kiliaen van.
- West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands).
- Commerce.
- History.
- Netherlands--Commerce--History--17th century.
- Netherlands.
- New Netherland--Colonization.
- New Netherland.
- New Netherland--History.
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Designing a new world
- Place of Publication:
- Hilversum, the Netherlands : Uitgeverij Verloren ; State University of New York Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- "The purpose of this book is to provide more insight into Kiliaen van Rensselaer as a driving force behind the peopling of New Netherland, and thus to better understand his motivation for colonization, in the hope that this may contribute to a broader knowledge of the development of New Netherland"--P. 13.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- A new home
- Learning to become a merchant and jeweler
- To work!
- Greed and romance
- Ideals and reality (1610-25)
- Pursuing an idea
- 1629: Lord of Rensselaerswijck
- Reflections
- List of abbreviations
- Appendices
- List of archival sources
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- "Published with financial support of the New Netherland Institute"--verso of t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-335) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789087041960
- 9087041969
- OCLC:
- 673625096
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