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VG. Size: 28 cm.; Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Light cover wear. Introduction In 1979 when the first Rensselaerswijck Seminar was held it was doubtful whether its sponsor, the New Netherland Project, would last another ten months. Five years after the beginning of the Project in 1974 there was still only sporadic financial support and low visibility. Although the Guide to Dutch Manuscripts and volumes 20 and 21 of the "Colonial Manuscripts" (Delaware Papers) had been published, few people were aware of the Project's existence. We had to go public. Esoteric work, or what seems to be such, requires either a private endowment to sustain itself or broad public support. The challenge was to transfer the perception of translating seventeenth-century Dutch as an exotic exercise into a means for understanding American heritage. New Netherland was a vast territory between New England and Virginia that provided a significant challenge to the English for most of the seventeenth century. Many now prominent cities in this area (Albany, New York City, etc. ) were founded by the Dutch. But hardly ~affy one knew about the Dutch origins or cared. What was known about the Dutch was considered quaint and inconsequential? mostly a Washington Irvingesque dreamland that many construed as history. An important period of our early history and development had been reduced to satire, to a sort of comic opera not worth serious consideration. What really seemed to matter was that the English took control and eliminated this anomaly in our colonial history. Had the thousands of New Netherlanders who lived and died in this country no part in shaping the American character? Was their only contribution a healthy dose of "vans" in the telephone book? The translation and publication program of the New Netherland Project was directed to the goal of providing primary source material for scholars who would write a balanced history of New Netherland and test its significance in the growth and development of our country. However, the Project was faced with a dilemma. It would require years for enough of the translations to be completed in order to have an impact but we needed to acquire public support as soon as possible in order to survive. 382 pages.
