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Friday
Sep112009

NY400: Een spiegel van hoe EUROPEES de Nederlandse cultuur wel is 11/9 [NL]

Op 7 september verleende de minister van Europese Zaken, Frans Timmermans, een ridderorde aan Russell Shorto in New York. Shorto is de schrijver van The Island at the Center Of the World (2004), waarin de geschiedenis wordt verteld van de eerste kolonisatie van Manhattan en omgeving door Nederlandse immigranten in de eerste helft van de zeventiende eeuw.
Russell Shorto
 

Het boek is vrijwel onmiddellijk (mei 2004) in het Nederlands vertaald als: Nieuw Amsterdam - Eiland in het Hart van de Wereld.

(te bestellen bij BOL.COM - klik op boekomslag hierboven)

In 1609 zeilde Henry Hudson in opdracht van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie vanuit Amsterdam de Atlantische Oceaan over, op zoek naar een “Noord-West Passage” van Holland naar Oost-Azië. De brede delta van de rivier die later Hudson’s naam zou krijgen, bleek niet de verhoopte doorvaart te bieden. In de volgende jaren werd er op Manhattan een handelspost gevestigd en verrezen enkele landbouw-dorpen op de eilanden en rivieroevers in de buurt.
“Nieuw Amsterdam” was een erg gematigd economisch succes. Handel met Indianenstammen (huiden) leverde nu en dan wat op. De nederzetting trok ook niet bepaald de economische en culturele elite van de Lage Landen als migranten aan. Dronkenschap, hoererij en misdaad tierden er welig.

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Monday
Sep072009

Dutch Heritage on Manhattan: Russell Shorto honored 6/9 [EN]

Today, Dutch Minister for European Affairs Frans Timmermans granted knighthood to Russell Shorto in New York. Shorto is author of The Island at the Center Of the World (2004), a history of the early colonization of Manhattan by Dutch settlers.

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Subtitle: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America.

I do not think that the Dutch settlers on the islands around the Hudson River really "shaped" the US. But their contribution to the fascinating adventure that are the United States of America is more substantial than is generally known.

It is 400 years ago, in September 1609, that captain Hudson and his small fleet, having sailed from Amsterdam, arrived at the river estuary, looking for a "North Western Passage" from Europe to Eastern Asia. In the following years, a small trading post and several farming villages were established in the region. Soon, after 45 years, the English occupied the settlement, but most of the originally Dutch settlers remained. Dutch names survive: Bleeker Street (Bleachers Street), Broadway (Bredeweg), Brooklyn (Breukelen, after a village near Amsterdam), etc.

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Friday
Sep042009

Woche 36: Ulfkotte nominiert für Schlechtsellerliste... 3/9 [DE]

Ulfkottes Platz 41 auf der Spiegel-Buchreport "Bestsellerliste" von Hardcover-Sachbücher hat sich in dieser Woche (36) nicht geändert. Verdiente Verkaufskatastrophe!

Friday
Aug282009

US: Republican Senator tells wife of brain-damaged man who gets no insurance coverage, to suck it up 28/8 [EN]

Stop the ultraconservative smear campaign against health care reform in the US!

What is at stake?

In the USA, more than 46 million out of a population of 200+ million have NO health insurance at all. In terms of percentage of national income, the US health care system is nevertheless the most expensive in the world. Millions of people die, prematurely, as they cannot afford the medical charges to survive.

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