A Beautiful and Fruitful Place -- Contents -- Introduction -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1988:"Domestic Life in New Netherland" -- Home is More Than a Roof: Concept of Private Space -- The Trades in the Village of Graft -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1989:"The Age of Leisler" -- The Pro-Leislerian Farmer: A "Mad Rabble" or "Gentlemen Standing Up for Their Rights"? -- Credit, Court, and New York City Merchants in the Age of Leisler -- Leisler's Pre-1689 Biography and Family Background -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1990:"New Netherland and the Frontier" -- De Suyt Rivier: New Netherland's Delaware -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1991:"The Persistence of the Dutch after 1664" -- The Dutch Heritage in Nineteenth-Century American Literature -- "Not Hasty to Change Old Habits for New" -- From Mutual Will to Male Prerogative: The Dutch Family and Anglicization in Colonial New York -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1992:"The Dutch in the Age of Exploration" -- Along the Spice Trails: Dutch Overseas Expansion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Dutch Primacy in Shipbuilding: Implications of New Technology for Seventeenth-century Naval Architecture -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1993:"Manor Life and Culture in the Hudson Valley" -- Dutch Foodways in the Hudson River Valley -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1994:"Family History: Two Branches into New Netherland Research" -- A Marriage of Genealogy and History I -- A Marriage of Genealogy and History II -- Wringing Information from a Drowned Princess: Using the Notarial Records of Amsterdam for Historical Research -- Why New Netherland Genealogists and Historians Need Each Other-An Editor's Perspective -- New Netherlanders and Their European Ancestry: A Survey of the State of the Art in Research of the First Settlers' Origins.

Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1995:" 'Neighbourlie Correspondencye':Relations between New Netherland and New England" -- The Hartford Treaty: A European Perspective on a New World Conflict -- An Uneasy Alliance: The Dutch and English on Long Island -- Did Boundaries Really Matter in Seventeenth-Century North America? -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1996:"The Staffs of Life: Bread and Beer" -- The Failure of West India Company Farming on the Island of Manhattan -- From Herbs to Hops: Outlines of the Brewing Process in Medieval Europe -- Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1997:"The West India Company and the Atlantic World" -- The WIC and the Reformed Church: Neglect or Concern? -- Winds of Change: Colonization, Commerce, and Consolidationin the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World -- A Monopoly Relinquished: The West India Company and the Atlantic Slave Trade -- On Common Ground:Legislation, Government, Jurisprudence, and Law in the Dutch West Indian Colonies in the Seventeenth Century -- New Netherland and the Atlantic World: Comments and Reflections -- Notes.