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1 Introduction 1 Introduction
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2 An Indian Country on The Brink of Transformation 2 An Indian Country on The Brink of Transformation
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3 New Amsterdam: When Worlds Collide 3 New Amsterdam: When Worlds Collide
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4 The English Conquest and its Aftermath 4 The English Conquest and its Aftermath
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5 The American Revolution: From Occupied City to World Port 5 The American Revolution: From Occupied City to World Port
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6 Conclusion 6 Conclusion
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Suggested Readings Suggested Readings
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The Origins of New York City: From Indian Country to World Port
Get accessAnne-Marie Cantwell is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark and Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at New York University. Her research focus is on colonialism as well as on Native American trade and ritual in pre- and post-Columbian Eastern North America. She has written extensively (with Diana Wall) about seventeenth century New Netherland and is co-author of Unearthing Gotham: The Archeology of New York City, Touring Gotham's Archaeological Past, and co-editor of Aboriginal Ritual and Economy in the Eastern Woodlands.
Diana diZerega Wall is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She specializes in studying aspects of American culture in New York City, including colonialism and constructions of class, race, gender, and ethnicity. She has written extensively (with Anne Marie Cantwell) about seventeenth century New Netherland and (with Nan Rothschild) about Seneca Village, a nineteenth century African American community in today's Central Park and is co-author of Unearthing Gotham: The Archeology of New York City, Touring Gotham's Archaeological Past, and The Archaeology of America's Cities.
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Published:02 October 2014
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Abstract
In the fifteenth century, a rich coastal area along the western rim of the Atlantic Basin, now known as New York City, was on the brink of transformation. It was a quiet place where autonomous communities of egalitarian peoples, today known as the Munsee, lived. Three centuries later, that place had become the first capital of a new, slave-owning, settler nation, the United States of America, and that nation’s premier port. In between, it was first an extractive and then a settler colony of two major European powers, the Netherlands and England, and a battleground in the American Revolution. This chapter uses the results of archaeological excavations there to illuminate that dramatic transformation.
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