In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution.

From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of immigrants.

Firth Haring Fabend has studied a large colonial American family over five generations. The Haring family settled in the Hackensack Valley where they lived, prospered, and remained throughout the eighteenth century.

In the first major examination of the diverse European efforts to colonize the Delaware Valley, Mark L. Thompson offers a bold new interpretation of ethnic and national identities in colonial America.

Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities.

Employing a frontier framework, this book traces intercultural relations in the lower Hudson River valley of early seventeenth-century New Netherland. I

Andrew Lipman’s eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians.

Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men.

In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane.

During the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires