From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange (Studies in Dutch Language and Culture, Volume 2)

424 pp. Black-and-white photos and illustrations. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments from the Editor (Margriet Bruijn Lacy); Foreword (Charles Gehring, Jenneke Oosterhoff); Archaeological Collections from New Netherland at the New York State Museum, Charles L. Fisher; Building a House in New Netherland: Documentary Sources for New Netherlandic Architecture, 1624-64, Jeroen van den Hurk; From Bird to Tippet: The Archaeology of Continuity and Change in Colonial Dutch Material Culture After 1664, Paul R. Huey; Daniel Van Voorhis: A Dutch-American Artisan in Post-Colonial New York City, Diana diZerega Wall; Woman in Between: Alida Schuyler Livingston, Nan A. Rothschild; "To Serve the Countrey": Garrett Van Sweringen and the Dutch Influence in Early Maryland, Henry M. Miller; The Enigmatic Isaac Allerton: A Mariner, Merchant, Burgher, Attorney, and Diplomat of New Netherland, David A. Furlow; The Middle Ground That Once Lay "Under the Blue Canopy of Heaven": The Munsee and the Dutch in the Seventeenth Century, Anne-Marie Cantwell; Parameters of the Fur Trade in New Netherland: Eighteenth-Century Evidence', Kees-Jan Waterman; Eilardus Westerlo on Hermanus Meijer's Call to Caughnawaga, Robert Naborn; Seventeenth-Century Religion as a Cultural Practice: Reassessing New Netherland's Religious History, Willem Frihjoff; Impact of Revivalism on the Dutch Reformed Church in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Jersey, Firth Haring Fabend; Of Wedding and War. Henricus Selyns' Bridal Torch (1663). Analysis, Edition, and Translation of the Dutch Poem, Frans R.E. Blom; The Old Testament's Virtuous Abraham as "Polygamist"' Theological, Literary, and Artistic Developments in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Culture, Christine P. Sellin; Icon, Narrative, and Iconoclasm in Hendrick ter Brugghen's Crowning with Thorns, Natasha Seaman; Wishes for Good Fortune: Wineglasses Engraved with Toasts, Margriet de Roever; The Rembrandt Year 2006 in Perspective, Amy Golahny; Eye to Eye with the Dutch in America: Vermeer and the Visual Turn, Julie Hochstrasser; Rituals of Travel in the Transition from Sail to Steam: The Dutch Immigrant Experience, 1840-1940, Hans Krabbendam; From "Floating Hollander" to "Flying Dutchman": The Changing Experience of Dutch Immigrants on the Transatlantic Voyage to North America, 1945-65, Enne Koops; Text and Subtext in Johan Huizinga's Writings on America, Augustinus P. Dierick; Myths and Forgeries Relating to American "Low Dutch," with Special Reference to Walter Hill's Notebook, Jaap van Marle; Diedrich Knickerbocker and the Making of a Dutch Dynasty, Elizabeth L. Bradley; Kindred Spirits: Jacob Cats and Washington Irving, Elisabeth Paling Funk; Changing Images. Walt Whitman in Low Countries: Objective or Expressive Poetry', Jacqueline Bel; In Flanders' Fields: Postcolonialism, Multiculturalism and the Limits of Tolerance, Luc Renders; The Legacy of Colonialism: Tweemaal Marienburg by Cynthia Mc Leod, Heilna du Plooy; John Donne's "Fitter" Pillar: Sir John Wingfield at Cadiz, Paul R. Sellin; Where Evil Grows: The United States versus the Netherlands in Frans Kellendonk's Mystic Body (1986), Matthieu Sergier; Imagining the Dutch Golden Age in Anglo-American Fiction, James A. Parente, Jr.