The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments In 2009, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the trans-oceanic voyage that created New Amsterdam, two professors at the Bard Graduate Center , Deborah Krohn and myself, along with a curator at The New-York Historical Society, Marybeth DeFilippis, organized an exhibition about the life of a woman who was born in Amsterdam, came of age in Malacca, and died in Brooklyn. How to study a maritime life was the question that generated the symposium which, in turn, gave birth to this book. It is a pleasure to thank again all those who made the exhibition and symposium such a success. This book, like all those produced in this series , reflects the careful attention of Daniel Lee, Managing Editor of the Bard Graduate Center’s learned publications, Laura Grey, its Art Director , and on the web side, Vanessa Rossi, its Digital Content Developer. At the University of Michigan Press we have benefited from a close working relationship with Thomas Dwyer and Christopher Dreyer. As the volume ’s editor, I would like again to thank Heather Topcik, Janis Ekdahl, Karyn Hinkle, and Tom Treadway, the librarians whose supply of new books and inter-library loans made it possible to explore this new line of inquiry. A long time ago, I learned that thinking something new about something familiar was only possible if one held oneself and one’s argument to the highest standard of truth. The person who taught me this was Istvan Hont. In the year of his sixty-fifth birthday, after twenty-two years of friendship, I am honored to dedicate this volume to him. ...