New Netherland and the Guianas with Melissa Morris, Deborah Hamer / Live From New Amsterdam
Watch this conversation about the 17th-century connections between two different Dutch colonies: New Netherland and the Guianas in South America. The Dutch West India Company established colonies in these distant and distinct regions, yet their plans for them were surprisingly similar. Melissa Morris and Deborah Hamer will discuss how Dutch colonialism in the Guianas shaped expectations, attitudes, and activities in New Netherland.
Live From New Amsterdam is an ongoing series hosted by the New Netherland Institute and the New Amsterdam Project at the New-York Historical Society. Through vibrant conversations with scholars and historians, each program will investigate new and exciting research related to New Amsterdam, New Netherland, and the lasting legacies of Dutch rule in New York.
Melissa Morris is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. She specializes in the history of early America and the seventeenth-century Atlantic World, especially the role of plants in driving European expansion, the dissemination of geographic and agricultural knowledge, and colonial failures in the Americas. Deborah Hamer is Director of the New Netherland Institute, where she is responsible for initiatives aimed at identifying, preserving, digitizing, and translating Dutch language documents in repositories around the world. She is a historian of the Dutch Atlantic world and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Live From New Amsterdam is presented with the support of the New Netherland Institute. Thumb image: Dutch West India Company book, New-York Historical Society.
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