AmericaHistoryThe NetherlandsImmigrantsW.A. KellyScottish Centre for the BookReference ReviewsKlooster, Wim. The Dutch in the Americas, 1600-1800: A Narrative History with the Catalogue of an Exhibition of Rare Prints, Maps, and Illustrated books from the John Carter Brown Library. Providence, RI...
The “Aristocrats” of San Francisco N OWHERE WAS J EWISH integration more extensive than in that quintessential Western boom city, San Francisco. Among the fortune-seekers making their way to central California in the Gold Rush of 1849 were perhaps three hundred Jews. A number of them made...
Nothing reached the numbers that made up the area called “Dutch Hill’ near 40th Street and First Avenue overlooking Turtle Bay, described in detail in a contemporary New York Times article published on March 21, 1855. New York City’s shantytowns were usually described with some measure of ...
There was a Belgian Natura printed in Ghent from 1883 to 1885, and the Dutch geillustreerd maandschrift (‘illustrated monthly book’) Die Natur was published from 1881 to 1894. Beyond Europe, the Mexican La Naturaleza started a second edition in 1887....
The 1960s was a period of innovation in Dutch poetry. Literary historians describing it sometimes referred to the American context, and with good reason. But this is not a matter of the unequivocal impact of one literature on the other. Similar features pop up on both sides of the ocean, ...
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES PART I. THE COLONIAL PERIOD CHAPTER I THE GREAT MIGRATION TO AMERICA The tide of migration that set in toward the shores of North America during the early years of the seventeenth century was but one phase in ...
Little did anyone know that France would remain the fashion icon for hundreds of years to come. These fashions did not only influence Western Europe. This age was the zenith of European colonialism, especially in the Americas. With the English, French, and Dutch in North America, Spain and ...
Part 7 Containing the third part of the reign of Peter the Headstrong - his troubles with the British nation, and the decline and fall of the Dutch dynasty. Chapter 1 The history of the reign of Peter Stuyvesant furnishes an edifying picture of the cares and vexations inseparable from soverei...
Most emigrants escaped political oppression, to seek the freedom to practice their religion, or for adventure and opportunities大多数移民为了寻找自由和宗教信仰,亦或者冒险与机会而逃离了政治压迫.Settlers including English, Dutch, Swedes and Germans, a few French and a scattering of Spaniards...
October 3, 1945; Chopin: The Day the Music Died The brief life of Chopin, one of music’s earliest superstars, ended on this day when the sickly composer fell victim to tuberculosis. Source- | This Day In Music. For those who may not know. Elvis Presley was known as the King of ...