“The Dutch threatened them hard”: Dutch and English colonial writings, 1620–1664
Abstract
This dissertation comparatively investigates how the interactions of Dutch and English colonists with their Indian neighbors in North America shaped colonial writers’ perspectives on ideologies and discourses circulating among the metropoles of seventeenth-century Europe. It argues that colonial writings by Dutch and English colonial writers, such as Thomas Morton, William Wood, Johannes Megapolensis, Harmen Meyndertz van den Bogaert, John Underhill, David P. De Vries, Adriaen van der Donck, or Beauchamp Plantagenet, participate in rhetorical networks spanning both the Atlantic and the Western hemisphere. By locating early modern European political, military, and territorial debates in writings from New England and New Netherland, this project suggests that the histories and cultures of European colonies in the Western hemisphere and their European mother countries in the seventeenth century are more complex and interlinked than earlier scholarship has implied. Moreover, this work outlines the extent to which European subjects on both sides of the Atlantic were involved in writing and defining the colonial experience.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Bross, Purdue University.
Subject Area
American studies|American history|American literature
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