New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia New edition

Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. Using vivid stories culled from Dutch-language archives, Romney brings to the fore the essential role of women in forming and securing these relationships, and she reveals how a dense web of these intimate networks created imperial structures from the ground up.