{"product_id":"new-netherland-and-the-dutch-origins-of-american-religious-liberty-paperback-softback-9780812223781","title":"New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812223781","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEvan Haefeli (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812223781\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 October 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 10 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.522 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNew Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e does nothing less than expand and transform our understanding of religious diversity and toleration in colonial Dutch North America. It will become required reading for anyone seriously interested in the early history of the mid-Atlantic colonies, the genesis of religious pluralism in America, or the history of religious toleration in the Dutch world.\" (\u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Through an examination of the too-often neglected Dutch colony of New Netherland that places its subject firmly in the Atlantic context, Evan Haefeli makes vital contributions both to colonial American history and to American religious history writ large.\" (Francis Bremer, author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Evan Haefeli has written an original and quite provocative study of the alleged Dutch origins of religious toleration as a truly American value. The book eschews oversimplified revaluation and presents a nuanced picture of the colony's religious history. Of particular value is the author's familiarity with the literature in Dutch, quite rare even among American historians of New Netherland.\" (Willem Frijhoff, VU University Amsterdam)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that \"everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion.\" For early American historians this statement, unique in the world at its time, lies at the root of American pluralism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new reading of the way tolerance operated in colonial America. Using sources in several languages and looking at laws and ideas as well as their enforcement and resistance, Evan Haefeli shows that, although tolerance as a general principle was respected in the colony, there was a pronounced struggle against it in practice. Crucial to the fate of New Netherland were the changing religious and political dynamics within the English empire. In the end, Haefeli argues, the most crucial factor in laying the groundwork for religious tolerance in colonial America was less what the Dutch did than their loss of the region to the English at a moment when the English were unusually open to religious tolerance. This legacy, often overlooked, turns out to be critical to the history of American religious diversity.\u003cbr\u003e By setting Dutch America within its broader imperial context, \u003ci\u003eNew Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive and nuanced history of a conflict integral to the histories of the Dutch republic, early America, and religious tolerance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Note on Translations, Transcriptions, and Dates\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Dutch Tolerance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Connivance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Toleration\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Non-Christians\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Babel\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Liberty of Conscience\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Public Church\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Borders\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Radicalism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Conquest\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555691163928,"sku":"9780812223781","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-netherland-and-the-dutch-origins-of-american-religious-liberty-paperback-softback-9780812223781","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}