Epic World History New Netherland Ultimately, new netherland suffered the most from foreign competition. a swedish colony on the delaware river proved a distraction to the dutch and, in 1655, stuyvesant engineered a military takeover of new sweden. however, dutch hegemony proved short lived as in 1664 an english fleet under the command of richard nicolls arrived off new amsterdam. Schmidt, benjamin, innocence abroad: the dutch imagination and the new world, 1570–1670, cambridge: university press, 2001. isbn 978 0 521 80408 0; shorto, russell. the island at the center of the world: the epic story of dutch manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped america (new york: doubleday, 2004).
Epic World History New Netherland New netherland had been conceived as a private business venture to exploit the north american fur trade. by the 1650s, the colony had experienced dramatic growth and become a major port for trade in the north atlantic. at its height, about 9,000 people lived in the colony of new netherland. In 1673, during the third anglo dutch war, the dutch re conquered manhattan with an invasion force of some 600 men. but they gave it up the following year as part of a peace treaty in which they. But the story of the dutch colony of new netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. russell shorto draws on this remarkable archive in the island at the center of the world , which has been hailed by the new york times as “a book that will. Russell shorto is the author of eight books of narrative history, including the international bestseller the island at the center of the world. his new book, coming in march 2025, is taking manhattan. he is the director of the new amsterdam project at the new york historical society and senior scholar at the new netherland institute.
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