Jun 10, 2015
Amsterdam : Trade center of the world At the time when the first Dutch traders were establishing relations with the indigenous tribes of North American, Amsterdam was well established as a dynamic international city of trade – in fact, the world trade center. In...
Jun 8, 2015
Make deals, not war Writing the (Anglo-American) history of New York only really began in the nineteenth century. This image is one of the many depictions of those early years. At the Library of Congress, the illustration is archived as Henry Hudson descending upon...
Jun 6, 2015
Role natives underexposed In the Anglo-Saxon historiography the original inhabitants of North Eastern America are one dimensional: they are portrayed as “savages”. However, the trade relationships these “savages” developed with the Dutch paint a very different...