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From New Netherland to New York: European Geopolitics and the transformation of social and political space in colonial New York City

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dc.contributor.advisorPiper Gaubatz
dc.contributor.authorLegrid, John Allen
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentGeography
dc.date2023-09-22T21:21:33.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T21:10:57Z
dc.date.available2010-08-08T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2010-01-01
dc.date.submittedSeptember
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the ways in which the core-periphery relationships of English and Dutch colonial ventures in North America were impacted by local events in New Amsterdam-New York, a Dutch colony that was lost to the English following the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1664. Increased peripheralization of New Amsterdam-New York negated centralizing efforts of the Dutch and effectively ended the potential for Dutch geopolitical power in North America. While the Atlantic World has traditionally been understood as a framework for understanding international phenomenon and global processes, this thesis suggests that it was impacted by multiple geopolitical scales simultaneously. Placing New Amsterdam-New York’s colonial history in a framework of evolving core-periphery relationships and highlighting the central role of local social, political, and spatial processes provides a foundation for understanding the outbreak of ethnic hostilities in the late 1680s. I argue that the increasing importance of the local is demonstrated by the attention given to social, political, and spatial ordinances that sought not to control “the English” or “the Dutch”, but to control the actions and actors of individual streets, wards, and districts.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Science (M.S.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/1431104
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/47398
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1594&context=theses&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectEarly Modern Europe; Geopolitics; New York City; New Amsterdam; New Netherland
dc.subjectHuman Geography
dc.titleFrom New Netherland to New York: European Geopolitics and the transformation of social and political space in colonial New York City
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digcom.date.embargo2010-08-08T00:00:00-07:00
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