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Taking Manhattan
The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
«How did New Amsterdam really become New York? Who made up the cast of characters behind this unusual and consequential takeover? And how did slavery play a part in the rise of a world class financial center that many people today imagine as having been northern and free? Taking Manhattan is a riveting, thoroughly researched account of the men and women of Indigenous, Dutch, African, Jewish, and English descent who populated this thriving seventeenth-century port that was the glory of the Netherlands and envy of England. Filled with new knowledge, eloquent prose, and international intrigue, Russell Shorto’s history of Manhattan’s shift from Indigenous hands, to Dutch oversight, to English authority, and ultimately to a state of cultural hybridity, will take your breath away.»
Tiya Miles, National Book Award winner and author of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dream
In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire and their arch-rivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he began parleying with Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch leader on Manhattan.
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In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire and their arch-rivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he began parleying with Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch leader on Manhattan.
Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention: the result not of an English military takeover but of clever negotiations that led to a fusion of the multiethnic capitalistic society the Dutch had pioneered to the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. Taking Manhattan shows how the paradox of New York’s origins—boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement—reflect America’s promise and failure to this day. Russell Shorto, whose work has been described as “astonishing” (The New York Times) and “revelatory” (New York Magazine), has once again mined newly translated sources to offer a vibrant tale and a fresh and trenchant argument about American beginnings.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- WW Norton & Co
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780393881165
- Utgivelsesår
- 2025
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Om forfatteren
Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of eight books, including Smalltime, Revolution Song, Amsterdam, and The Island at the Center of the World. He is the director of the New Amsterdam Project at the New York Historical and senior scholar at the New Netherland Institute.
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«How did New Amsterdam really become New York? Who made up the cast of characters behind this unusual and consequential takeover? And how did slavery play a part in the rise of a world class financial center that many people today imagine as having been northern and free? Taking Manhattan is a riveting, thoroughly researched account of the men and women of Indigenous, Dutch, African, Jewish, and English descent who populated this thriving seventeenth-century port that was the glory of the Netherlands and envy of England. Filled with new knowledge, eloquent prose, and international intrigue, Russell Shorto’s history of Manhattan’s shift from Indigenous hands, to Dutch oversight, to English authority, and ultimately to a state of cultural hybridity, will take your breath away.»
Tiya Miles, National Book Award winner and author of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dream
«The flavor of New Amsterdam — pluralistic, capitalistic, pulsing with energy — has survived. The history of how a Dutch town of 1500 people and some 28 languages became the city of New York evaporated along the way. Russell Shorto has heroically recovered it, offering up the 17th century transfer of power as it actually occurred and in vivid detail. Here, amid red-tiled roofs, are secret negotiations; last-ditch female intermediaries; and, for good measure, a Connecticut alchemist. Best of all, Shorto himself feels everywhere present in these spirited, revelatory pages. »
Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Revolutionary
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