Designing a New WorldUitgeverij Verloren, 2011 - 352 pagina's During the early 1600s, as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands was locked in a war with Spain that would last for eighty years, thousands of immigrants came to Amsterdam and greatly influenced the development of the Republic. Among them was Kiliaen van Rensselaer, a young man from a small eastern town on the war front. Young Kiliaen quickly became part of the culture of this rapidly developing city, where he was trained as a jeweler and merchant by wealthy relatives. He would work within this family network for the rest of his life, to great success. As one of the founding directors of the Dutch West India Company, he was instrumental in the establishment of the New Netherland colony on the East Coast of North America, becoming one of its first patroons. Although he never actually set foot in the New World, his patroonship, Rensselaerswyck, encompassed much of what is now New York State’s Capital District and survived as a legal entity up until the 1840s. In this engrossing biography, Janny Venema examines the time in which Kiliaen van Rensselaer lived, his surroundings, the rapidly expanding city of Amsterdam, the great trading companies, the jewelry business, and the people in his network. Along the way, she explores his motivations and the powerful role he played in helping to establish a Dutch presence in the New World. |
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments | 8 |
A Baptism | 17 |
A New Home | 31 |
Learning to Become a Merchant and Jeweler | 63 |
A Wedding | 116 |
19 | 122 |
29 | 130 |
Greed and Romance | 139 |
Pursuing an Idea | 200 |
42 | 214 |
85 | 242 |
87 | 260 |
Reflections | 268 |
III | 278 |
A Funeral | 289 |
List of Archival Sources | 322 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Amersfoort Amster Amsterdam Anna Antwerp April Archief arrived became Bijler Blommaert Brazil brought chamber church colonists colony Company Company’s Culemborg Damrak death diamonds died directors Doedens and Looijesteijn Dutch East Indies eeuw expedition Fort Orange Frederiks fur trade Gelderblom Gelderland Geschiedenis Godijn gold guilders Hague Hasselt Heijer Hendrick Heren Herengracht Hillegond Holland Ibid Indians Island jacht Jacob Jacob Cats Jacques l’Hermite Jan van Wely Jansz jeweler jewelry business Johan July Keizersgracht Kerk Kiliaen van Rensselaer land later Leonora Haukens lived Mahicans Maria marriage married merchants Middelburg Nassau Fleet Nederland Netherland Nijkerk Orange Oude Oude Kerk paintings patroon patroonship pearls perhaps Pieter portrait Portuguese Prince Maurits reis Rensselaerswijck Republic River Roever Rotterdam sailed Samuel Blommaert sent September ships silver South Spanish stad stadholder sterdam Theodora Truce Utrecht verhael Voorbeijtel Cannenburg VRBM Wely’s Willem van Wely Wolphert wrote Zandvliet Zeeland