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From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange
edited by Margriet Bruyn Lacy, Charles Gehring, and Jenneke Oosterhoff (Münster: Nodus, 2008). Soft-cover, 424 pages.

A collection of thirty essays from among the roughly sixty papers presented at the interdisciplinary joint conference of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies and the New Netherland Institute, held in June 2006 in Albany, NY.

The approaching 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's 1609 explorations set the theme for the conference, permitting a broad range of presentations. In this volume, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, such as history, art history, archeology, material culture, religion, and literature, similarly examine the interactions between the Netherlands and the New World. They also focus on actual New Netherlanders or their descendants and explore Dutch-Indian relations.

Together, the essays in this highly readable collection demonstrate that Dutch involvement in and contributions to American history and culture have had a significant impact on the growth and development of the USA.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments from the Editor (Margriet Bruijn Lacy)
Foreword (Charles Gehring, Jenneke Oosterhoff)
Charles L. Fisher, "Archaeological Collections from New Netherland at the New York State   Museum"
Jeroen van den Hurk, "Building a House in New Netherland: Documentary Sources for New   Netherlandic Architecture, 1624-64"
Paul R. Huey, "From Bird to Tippet: The Archaeology of Continuity and Change in Colonial   Dutch Material Culture after 1664"
Diana diZegera Wall, "Daniel Van Voorhis: A Dutch-American Artisan in Post-Colonial               New York City"
Nan A. Rothchild, "Woman In Between: Alida Schuyler Livingston"
Henry M. Miller, "To Serve the Countrey': Garrett Van Sweringen and the Dutch  Influence in   Early Maryland"
David A. Furlow, "The Enigmatic Isaac Allerton: A Mariner, Merchant, Burgher,             Attorney, and Diplomat of New Netherland"
Anne-Marie Cantwell, "The Middle Ground That Once Lay 'under the Blue Canopy of Heaven':   the Munsee and the Dutch in the Seventeenth Century"
Kees-Jan Waterman, "Parameters of the Fur Trade in New Netherland: Eighteenth-Century   Evidence?"
Robert Naborn, "Eilardus Westerlo on Hermanus Meijer's Call to Caughnawaga"
Willem Frijhoff, "Seventeenth-Century Religion as a Cultural Practice: Reassessing New              Netherland's Religious History"
Firth Haring Fabend, "Impact of Revivalism on the Dutch Reformed Church in   Nineteenth   Century New York and New Jersey"
Frans R. E. Blom, "Of Wedding and War. Henricus Selyns' Bridal Torch (1663): Analysis,   Edition, and Translation of the Dutch Poem"
Christine P. Sellin, "The Old Testament's Virtuous Abraham as 'Polygamist'?: Theological,   Literary, and Artistic Developments in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish   Culture"
Natasha Seaman, "Icon, Narrative, and Iconoclasm in Hendrick ter Brugghen's 'Crowning with   Thorns'"
Margriet de Roever, "Wishes for Good Fortune: Wineglasses Engraved with Toasts"
Amy Gohlany, "The Rembrandt Year 2006 in Perspective"
Julie Hochstrasser, "Eye to Eye with the Dutch in America: Vermeer and the Visual        Turn"
Hans Krabbendam, "Rituals of Travel in the Transition from Sail to Steam: The Dutch      Immigrant Experience, 1840-1940"
Enne Koops, "From 'Floating Hollander' to 'Flying Dutchman': The Changing     Experience of Dutch Immigrants on the Transatlantic Voyage to North America, 1945-65"
Augustinus P. Dierick, "Text and Subtext in Johan Huizinga's Writings on America"
Jaap van Marle, "Myths and Forgeries Relating to American 'Low Dutch,' with Special   Reference to Walter Hill's Notebook"
Elizabeth L. Bradley, "Diedrich Knickerbocker and the Making of a Dutch Dynasty"
Elisabeth Paling Funk, "Kindred Spirits: Jacob Cats and Washington Irving"
Jacqueline Bel, "Changing Images. Walt Whitman in the Low Countries: Objective or       Expressive Poetry?"
Luc Renders, "In Flanders' Fields: Postcolonialism, Multiculturalism and the Limits of       Tolerance"
Heilna de Plooy, "The Legacy of Colonialism: Tweemaal Marienbürg by Cynthia Mc   Leod"
Paul R. Sellin, " John Donne's 'Fitter' Pillar: Sir John Wingfield at Cádiz"
Matthieu Sergier, "Where Evil Grows: The United States versus the Netherlands in Frans             Kellendonk's Mystic Body (1986)"
James A. Parente, Jr., "Imagining the Dutch Golden Age in Anglo-American Fiction"