Research Catalog

Title

Opening statements : law, jurisprudence, and the legacy of Dutch New York / edited by Albert M. Rosenblatt and Julia C. Rosenblatt.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rosenblatt, Albert M.
• Rosenblatt, Julia C.

Description

xxiv, 243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Excelsior editions

Uniform Title

Excelsior editions.

Subject

• 1600 - 1699
• Law > New York (State) > History
• Dutch > New York (State) > History > 17th century
• Dutch
• Law
• New York (State) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• New York (State)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A well regulated country where justice and government prevail" / Martha Dickinson Shattuck -- The souls of New Amsterdam's African American children / Joyce D. Goodfriend -- Matters of "trifling moment" : New Netherland and the New York tradition of arbitration / Troy A. McKenzie and Wilson C. Freeman -- The Declaration of Independence and the Dutch legacy / Wijnand W. Mijnhardt -- Real estate or political sovereignty? : The Dutch, Munsees, and the purchase of Manhattan Island / Paul Otto -- Crimen laesae maiestatis or abuse of power? : The 1647 trial of Cornelis Melijn and Jochem Pietersz Kuijter / Jaap Jacobs -- Imagining the Stadt Huys / Diana diZerega Wall and Anne-Marie Cantwell -- Prosecution or persecution? : The 1657 Flushing incident / Charles Gehring -- Lutherans and the law in New Netherland : the politics of religion / Peter R. Christoph -- A flourishing city : Jews in New Amsterdam, 1654 / Leo Hershkowitz -- Governors Island and the origins of religious tolerance / Joep de Koning -- Marital litigations in New Netherland and proprietary New York : similarities and differences in application of Dutch and English law / Michael E. Gherke -- English law through Dutch eyes : the Leislerian understanding of the English legal system in New York / David William Voorhees.

Call Number

JFF 14-648

ISBN

• 9781438446578 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1438446578 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781438446585 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1438446586 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012023547

OCLC

795575323

Title

Opening statements : law, jurisprudence, and the legacy of Dutch New York / edited by Albert M. Rosenblatt and Julia C. Rosenblatt.

Publisher

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Excelsior editions

Excelsior editions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1600 - 1699

Added Author

Rosenblatt, Albert M., editor.

Rosenblatt, Julia C., editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 14-648