Janny Venema Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586-1643)

designing a New World

Around 1600 the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands was in the middle of a war with Spain that would last for eighty years (1568-1648). Thousands of immigrants came to Amsterdam and greatly influenced the development of the Republic. Kiliaen van Rensselaer was among them. Growing up in a small eastern town on the war front he became part of the culture of this rapidly developing city, where he was trained as a jeweler and merchant by wealthy relatives. He would work together within this family...

Non-fictie

Engels | 352 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2010

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Janny Venema Beverwijck

a Dutch village on the American frontier, 1652-1664

Non-fictie

Engels | 527 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2003

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