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Review: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped AmericaUser Review - John T. Hickey - GoodreadsShorto uses recently translated Dutch archives, maps, and English-language memoirs to trace the development of the unique entrepreneurial, multicultural, tolerant society created in Manhattan by the ... Read full review Review: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped AmericaUser Review - Kristine - GoodreadsRussell Shorto has written a dense, but mostly readable and utterly fascinating history of Manhattan and Dutch history in the 17th century based heavily on colonial New Netherlands documents which ... Read full review Other editions - View all
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