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This two-volume work was first published in 1899, and can be characterized as popular history. Accordingly, the more punctilious scholars found varying degrees of fault with it, and I'll eventually be adding their contemporary reviews of the book. I'm a bit more lenient, though: some of what they complained about I feel is actually a virtue: for example, how the author puts his history in its broad context; at any rate, Fiske writes simply and well, is very clear and holds our interest: what more does a reasonable reader want? (For shorter samples of his work, eliciting the same appreciation by a friend of mine, see his lectures on Columbus, Crispus Attucks, and the discovery of the Columbia River at Elfinspell.)
For technical details on how this site is laid out, see below, after the author's preface and my table of contents.
The Mediaeval Netherlands |
I.1 | |
Dutch Influence upon England |
27 | |
Verrazano and Hudson |
52 | |
The West India Company |
83 | |
"Privileges and Exemptions" |
112 | |
King Log and King Stork |
138 | |
A Soldier's Paternal Rule |
164 | |
Some Affairs of New Amsterdam |
190 | |
Dutch and English |
211 | |
The English Autocrats |
II.1 | |
New York in the Year 1680 |
59 | |
Penn's Holy Experiment |
92 | |
Downfall of the Stuarts |
155 | |
The Citadel of America |
194 | |
Knickerbocker Society |
250 | |
The Quaker Commonwealth |
282 | |
The Migrations of Sects |
317 | |
339 | ||
349 |
The edition transcribed here is the 1903 illustrated edition. The original book was copyright 1899, and the text is thus in the public domain (details here on the copyright law involved).
As almost always, I retyped the text by hand rather than scanning it — not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend: Qui scribit, bis legit. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)
This transcription has been minutely proofread. In the table of contents above, the sections are shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree. As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme.
The edition I followed was very well proofread, with very few typographical errors. I marked the few corrections, when important (or unavoidable because inside a link), with a bullet like this;º and when trivial, with a dotted underscore like this: as elsewhere on my site, glide your cursor over the bullet or the underscored words to read the variant. Similarly, bullets before measurements provide conversions to metric, e.g., •10 miles.
A small number of odd spellings, curious turns of phrase, etc. have been marked <!‑‑ sic in the sourcecode, just to confirm that they were checked.
The name of John Brodhead, author of History of the State of New York, is occasionally spelled Broadhead by Fiske or his typesetter: I've tacitly corrected it.
Any mistakes not marked, please drop me a line, of course: especially if you have a copy of the printed book in front of you.
For citation and indexing purposes, the pagination is shown in the right margin of the text at the page turns (as in the author's Preface above); these are also local anchors. Sticklers for total accuracy will of course find the anchor at its exact place in the sourcecode.
In addition, I've inserted a number of other local anchors: whatever links might be required to accommodate the author's own cross-references, as well as a few others for my own purposes. If in turn you have a website and would like to target a link to some specific passage of the text, please let me know: I'll be glad to insert a local anchor there as well.
The book is profusely illustrated, and the illustrations are very well chosen, germane, interesting, and of good quality for the period; and the publishers were rightly proud of them:
In preparing this edition of The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, the publishers have been able to secure for illustration original manuscripts and other material never before reproduced. They have also followed the plan adopted by Mr. Fiske in previous cases, and have used only illustrations that possess distinct historical interest.
Credit is given in the list of illustrations for many courtesies, but special thanks are due to Wilberforce Eames of the New York Public Library, Gen. James Grant Wilson of New York, R. V. R. Stuyvesant, Esq., of New York, A. J. Van Laer of the State Library, Albany, N. Y., Samuel A. Green of the Massachusetts Historical Society, T. J. Kiernan of the Harvard University Library, William Nelson of the New Jersey Historical Society, and Albert C. Bates of the Connecticut Historical Society.
Boston, October, 1903.
That said, scanning and churning out HTML is not as fast as one would like; for the time being you'll find almost none of the illustrations onsite. I'll be putting them up, but there's no point in holding back a good text in the meantime.
The icon I use to indicate this subsite is my colorization of an engraving (on Vol. I, p197) of the Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam — the City Hall of New York. The colors are those of the flag of the Prince of Orange: the Dutch national colors when the book opens.
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