Stuyvesant Bound

Donna Merwick is Senior Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Long Term Visiting Fellow at Australian National University, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Swinburne Institute for Social Research at the Swinburne University of Technology. She is the author of many books, including The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York.

Preface: The Outcast I. DUTY Chapter 1. Magistracy and Confessional Politics Chapter 2. Conflicts and Reputation Chapter 3. Protecting by Deterrence Chapter 4. "The General" II. BELIEF Chapter 5. The Struggle to Believe Chapter 6. Managing Conventicles Chapter 7. Ordinances: The Needle of Sin III. LOSS Chapter 8. To Suffer Loss, 1664-1667 Chapter 9. Dismissal and Return Chapter 10. Stuyvesant Tattooed Chapter 11. A Place in Early America Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

"Donna Merwick's latest book, Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time, takes a fresh look at New Netherland's last and longest-serving director, Peter Stuyvesant. Merwick's exploration of this leader of the Dutch outpost on the Hudson reveals her to be a scholar at the peak of her powers. . . . This evocative work shows how much a career's worth of engagement with seventeenth-century Dutch sources has strengthened her appreciation, if not sympathy, for the society she studies. Her reconstruction of the intellectual and spiritual world from which Stuyvesant made meaning . . . marks this book as a serious contribution that must be taken into account by historians of Dutch culture outside North America as well as within it." (Reviews in American History) "A thoroughly structured, very personal, and profoundly innovative assessment of one of the major figures of early American history, Petrus Stuyvesant. Merwick goes to the heart of the matter, and indeed of the man himself." (Willem Th. M. Frijhoff, Erasmus University) "A major contribution to the fields of early American history and early modern New Netherland studies. . . . Her direct, almost intimate address to readers made this book hard to put down." (Robert St. George, University of Pennsylvania)