A Beautiful and Fruitful Place

This second volume in a set of works showcasing research on the New Netherland colony in North America and Dutch colonial settlements, presents papers drawn from annual seminars on the subject. The essays cover a wide variety of topics, from agrarian practices, to the legacy of Dutch settlement in New York, to internal politics, to the interaction of the Dutch with other colonial powers both in the colonies and in Europe. Papers are academic in tone but no author information is provided. Funk is an independent scholar who has written extensively on the New Netherland colony and Shattuck is a researcher with the New Netherland Research Center. An imprint of State University of New York Press. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Elisabeth Paling Funk was born in Woerden, the Netherlands. She is an independent scholar, freelance editor and translator, and former adjunct assistant professor at Manhattanville College. Her articles on early American and Dutch-American literature have been published in the United States and the Netherlands. She is preparing her dissertation, “Washington Irving and His Dutch-American Heritage as Seen in A History of New York, The Sketch-Book, Bracebridge Hall, and Tales of a Traveller,” for publication as a book.

Martha Dickinson Shattuck is the editor and researcher with the New Netherland Research Center and the editor of Explorers, Fortunes, and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland. She has published various articles on New Netherland, was the New Netherland and Colonial editor for The Encyclopedia of New York State, and is currently editing and annotating the New Netherland papers from the Bontemantel Collection in the New York Public Library.