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New Netherland [electronic resource] By:"Jaap Jacobs" Published on 2005 by BRILL This volume covers the history of the Dutch colony New Netherland on the North American continent, dealing with themes such as the patterns of immigration, government and justice, the economy, religion, social structure, material culture, and mentality of the colonists. This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword women's rain shoes. false women's rain shoes http://books.google.com/books?id=Uex2budtSOUC&dq=women's+rain+shoes&hl=&source=gbs_api

The Colony of New Netherland By:"Jaap Jacobs" Published on 2009 by Cornell University Press The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley region. In The Colony of New Netherland, Jaap Jacobs offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch colony on the Hudson from the first trading voyages in the 1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English. As Jacobs shows, New Netherland offers a distinctive example of economic colonization and in its social and religious profile represents a noteworthy divergence from the English colonization in North America. Centered around New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan, the colony extended north to present-day Schenectady, New York, east to central Connecticut, and south to the border shared by Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsyl...