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Exploring Historic Dutch New York
New York City * Hudson Valley * New Jersey * Delaware
Various Authors4
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About
This comprehensive guide to touring important sites of Dutch history serves as an engrossing cultural and historical reference. A variety of internationally renowned scholars explore Dutch art in the Metropolitan Museum, Dutch cooking, Dutch architecture, Dutch immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, English words of Dutch origin, Dutch furniture and antiques, and much more. Color photographs and maps throughout.
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Reviews
"An expansive guidebook inspired by the Henry Hudson quadricentennial and accompanied by informative essays."
The New York Times
"The Dutch spirit of diversity, tolerance, and entrepreneurship still echoes across our city streets today. This guide will highlight the history of the early settlements of these new world pioneers as well as the incredible impact they had, and still have, on the world's greatest city."
Michael R. Bloomberg, former Mayor, City of New York