Exploring Historic Dutch New York
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Exploring Historic Dutch New York by Gajus Scheltema
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of New YorkThis comprehensive guide to touring important sites of Dutch history serves as an engrossing cultural and historical reference.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.
An expansive guidebook inspired by the Henry Hudson quadricentennial and accompanied by informative essays. -- The New York Times
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780486486376 |
| ISBN 10 | 0486486370 |
| Title | Exploring Historic Dutch New York |
| Author | Gajus Scheltema |
| Series | New York City |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Year published | 2011-06-29 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |