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Acknowledgments From the beginning, I have conceived of this book as an essay in the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century meaning of the word. It is an interpretive composition dealing with its subject from—as my ancient 1956 Webster’s dictionary states—“a more or less limited or personal standpoint.” I hope that the focus has not been too limited. In fact, I hope it has been expansive, moving into such domains as colonial history, religious history, the study of emotions and empires, the call upon some philosophy and anthropology . But it is personal—as I believe critical history should be. I have archivists, librarians, and research assistants to thank. Or, better, I have to thank them in a once-again statement—that is, for all the intellectual gifts they have made available to me over the past decades when I began my studies as a historian and, more latterly, as a student of New Netherland. I thanked them then, and I thank them now. I extend my thanks to the many colleagues and friends who have read and critiqued chapters of this book. Among them are Ron Adams, Ian Britain , Joy Damousi, Susan Foley, Katie Holmes, Jim Mitchell, Klaus Neumann, John Rickard, Chips Sowerwine, Alistair Thompson, Christina Toomey and Charles Zika. Wim Frijhoff, emeritus professor at The Free University of Amsterdam , and The Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Robert Blair St. George at the University of Pennsylvania acted as readers of the manuscript for The University of Pennsylvania Press. Their insights into the purposes of Stuyvesant Bound and their careful readings of the text were balanced, gracious and, in every way, encouraging. I give thanks too to David William Voorhees, editor of de halve maen journal and outstanding historian of early New York. The years have shown me that I could always turn to him for advice. Val Noone helped me bring the manuscript to proper form; I could not have done it myself. Mary Tomsic helped me with illustrations, and Emily Brissenden generously designed the map of New Netherland, circa 1660. To family and friends who encouraged me over the past five years, I am grateful beyond words. ...