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Michael J. Douma The slow death of slavery in Dutch New York
a cultural, economic, and demographic history, 1700-1827
Engels | 257 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2025
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Michael J. Douma How Dutch Americans stayed Dutch
an historical perspective on ethnic identities
Summary: The Dutch-American ethnic group demonstrates the persistence of Dutchness, which, however, has come to mean many different things in an American context. This study demonstrates that Dutch identities, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth-century immigrants, have survived precisely because of this flexibility: the evolution of tradition, not its rigid preservation, is the unifying principle of social cohesion. As Douma contends, to understand ethnic groups we need to see them as historically...
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Engels | 238 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2014
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