Jaap Jacobs (Ph.D. Leiden University) is Lecturer in History at Harvard University. He has been Visiting Professor of Early American History at Ohio University and Quinn Foundation Senior Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Quinn Foundation Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University.

"Jaap Jacobs's The Colony of New Netherland is rich, deep, layered, and authoritative. It puts its subject in its proper place both in American and in Dutch history. For anyone with an interest in the Dutch presence in North America, it is essential."—Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World

• Introduction: "A Blessed Country, Where Milk and Honey Flow"1. Reconnaissance and Exploration2. Population and Immigration3. Authority, Government, and Justice4. Trade, Agriculture, and Artisans5. The Reformed Church and the Others6. Burghers and Status7. Living in a ColonyEpilogue: "It has pleased the Lord [to ordain] that we must learn English"List of AbbreviationsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Jaap Jacobs (Ph.D. Leiden University) is Lecturer in History at Harvard University. He has been Visiting Professor of Early American History at Ohio University and Quinn Foundation Senior Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Quinn Foundation Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University.

"Jaap Jacobs's The Colony of New Netherland is rich, deep, layered, and authoritative. It puts its subject in its proper place both in American and in Dutch history. For anyone with an interest in the Dutch presence in North America, it is essential."—Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World

• Introduction: "A Blessed Country, Where Milk and Honey Flow"1. Reconnaissance and Exploration2. Population and Immigration3. Authority, Government, and Justice4. Trade, Agriculture, and Artisans5. The Reformed Church and the Others6. Burghers and Status7. Living in a ColonyEpilogue: "It has pleased the Lord [to ordain] that we must learn English"List of AbbreviationsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Jaap Jacobs (Ph.D. Leiden University) is Lecturer in History at Harvard University. He has been Visiting Professor of Early American History at Ohio University and Quinn Foundation Senior Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Quinn Foundation Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University.

"Jaap Jacobs's The Colony of New Netherland is rich, deep, layered, and authoritative. It puts its subject in its proper place both in American and in Dutch history. For anyone with an interest in the Dutch presence in North America, it is essential."—Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World

• Introduction: "A Blessed Country, Where Milk and Honey Flow"1. Reconnaissance and Exploration2. Population and Immigration3. Authority, Government, and Justice4. Trade, Agriculture, and Artisans5. The Reformed Church and the Others6. Burghers and Status7. Living in a ColonyEpilogue: "It has pleased the Lord [to ordain] that we must learn English"List of AbbreviationsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex