Qualities of Dutch national character and culture persisted in New York and New Jersey for more than 200 years after Dutch immigration ended. This book argues that it was due to the devotion of the Dutch Reformed Church to the doctrines and traditions of their religion.
"Land So Fair" opens in 1737 on a Hudson Valley farm, where the family's land, "sought, bought, cleared, planted, harvested, bequeathed, fought over, challenged, confiscated, and laced with bones and blood," is threatened anew each generation. Three strong-minded Dutch-American women, related to each other by marriage, deal with the privations of ...
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A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies
