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While the West India Company’s records of the colony of New Netherland are relatively plentiful after 1638, the unique, ...

Author Russell Shorto, in his book “Taking Manhattan,” described the negotiations between Dutch Director General Peter ...

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The transfer of power from the Dutch to the English was more like a strategic merger, historian Russell Shorto contends.

Edgecombe explained that when the British took control of New Amsterdam, in 1664, the colony’s Dutch director-general, Peter Stuyvesant, couldn’t get anyone to join him in resisting the invasion.

Taking Manhattan, by Russell Shorto (Norton). This vivid history chronicles England’s “taking” of New Amsterdam from the Dutch, in 1664. Shorto, however, argues that it was the Dutch, not ...