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• Author(s): Henry C. Murphy • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Adventurers & ExplorersFour centuries ago, English explorer Henry Hudson (1570-1611), commanding the yacht Halve Maen for the Dutch East I...

• Author(s): Adriaen Van Der Donck | Jeremiah Johnson • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralDescription of the New Netherlands was written in 1653 by Adriaen van der Donck, just two years before his dea...

• Author(s): Thomas Colley Grattan • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & MedievalGrattan begins his history of the Netherlands in 50BC, describing the harsh landscape and the industrio...

• Author(s): William Elliot Griffis • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyAbove all things, the most fun for a young Oni is to get into a crockery shop. Once the...

• Author(s): John Franklin Jameson | J. Franklin Jameson • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralNarratives of New Netherland reads like a small anthology on the discovery, origins, and history of the Uni...

• Author(s): Hendrik Willem Van Loon • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & MedievalThe one permanent move for obtaining peace, which has not yet been suggested, with any reasonable cha...

• Author(s): Hendrik Willem Van Loon • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: World - General[W]ho is there that has studied the events of those years between 1795-1815 who did not feel the utter indignation, the...

• Author(s): Hendrik Willem Van Loon • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: World - GeneralWhen the unexpected happened, and the British were beaten by the Americans, van Goens, who as we have mentioned before ...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Janvier • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodThe Dutch Founding of New York, originally published in 1903, is a captivating and detailed historical accoun...

• Author(s): William Elliot Griffis • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralWritten as a history lesson on the impact of the Dutch on the culture and pedigree of the United Kingdom and America, Brave Litt...