The shame and the sorrow

Description:

How are the Dutch to be judged? Donna Merwick, in The Shame and the Sorrow, asks this question. She points to a betrayal both of their own values and of the native peoples. She also directs us to the self-delusion of hegemonic control. Her work belongs alongside the best of today's postcolonial studies in the description of cross-cultural violence and subtle questioning of the nature of writing its history."--Book jacket.

subjects: History,  Indians of North America,  Wars,  Indians of north america, history,  Indians of north america, wars,  New york (state), history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Places: New Netherland,  New York (State)

Times: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775