Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction (Joyce D. Goodfriend) -- NEW NETHERLAND AND HISTORICAL MEMORY -- Inventing Memory: Picturing New Netherland in the Nineteenth Century (Annette Stott) -- The Walloon and Huguenot Elements in New Netherland and Seventeenth-Century New York: Identity, History and Memory (Bertrand Van Ruymbeke) -- NEW NETHERLAND IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD -- The Place of New Netherland in the West India Company's Grand Scheme (Wim Klooster) -- New Sweden: An Interpretation (Richard Waldron) -- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEW NETHERLAND -- Securing the Burgher Right in New Amsterdam: The Struggle for Municipal Citizenship in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Dennis J. Maika) -- Joris Dopzen's Hog and Other Stories: Artisans and the Making of New Amsterdam (Simon Middleton) -- NEW NETHERLAND'S DIRECTORS: A NEW LOOK -- Neglected Networks: Director Willem Kieft (1602-1647) and his Dutch Relatives (Willem Frijhoff) -- Like Father, Like Son? The Early Years of Petrus Stuyvesant (Jaap Jacobs) -- FAMILY RESEARCH AS A KEY TONEW NETHERLAND'S HISTORY -- The State of New Netherland Genealogical Research-2001 (Harry Macy, Jr) -- Sex and the City: Relations Between Men and Women in New Netherland (Firth Haring Fabend) -- WRITING THE HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLANDIN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- A Survey of Documents Relating to the History of New Netherland (Charles Gehring) -- Tying the Loose Ends Together: Putting New Netherland Studies on a Par with the Study of Other Regions (David William Voorhees) -- Index.