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The Island at the Center of the World: the Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America.

Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05 		Format: Online - approximately 338 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Island at the Center of the World: the Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America.(Briefly Noted)(Book Review)

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By RUSSELL SHORTO. Doubleday. 325 pp. $39.95.

Shorto provides an exciting telling of the founding of the "middle colonies" by the Dutch West India Company, incorporating recently translated seventeenth-century Dutch archives housed in the New York state library in Albany, and asserting that the inhabitants of the original New...

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