Shame and the Sorrow

Donna Merwick is Senior Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Long Term Visiting Fellow at Australian National University, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Swinburne Institute for Social Research at the Swinburne University of Technology. She is the author of Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time, also available from University of Pennsylvania Press, and Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York.

"Merwick is unafraid of 'weighing up' the evidence carefully to recapture the 'moral murkiness' that dominated seventeenth-century Netherlanders' efforts. . . . [A] beautifully constructed work."-Australasian Journal of American Studies"Merwick's book is certainly interesting, often beautifully written, but it is also a strong contribution to historical scholarship."-American Historical Review

• SoundingsPART I. ALONGSHORE1. Alongshore: Stories to Tell of the Virginias2. "The Island"PART II. SHARED BEACHES3. The Quarterdeck and Trading Station4. Natives and StrangersPART III. STAYING ALONGSHORE5. Sovereign People6. Masters of Their Lands7. Inland DrowningsPART IV. OMENS OF A TRAGEDY COMING ON8. Bells of War 9. "Only This and Nothing More"10. The Connecticut Valley: The Strangers' Ways of Violence PART V. DEADLY ENCOUNTER11. The Indian War Seen12. The Indian War Given Words13. The War's HauntingPART VI. CROSS-COLONIZATION14. Watchful Waiting15. Alongshore Compromised16. Considerations on a Just WarPART VII. FINAL LOGGED ENTRIES17. Cultural Entanglement18. No ClosureWeighing UpNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments