List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Holland in America (Joyce D. Goodfriend, Benjamin Schmidt, and Annette Stott) -- PART I COLONIAL DUTCH INFLUENCES -- Chapter One Dutch Art and the Hudson Valley Patroon Painters (Louisa Wood Ruby) -- Chapter Two Erasing the Dutch: The Critical Reception of Hudson Valley Dutch Architecture, 1670-1840 (Joseph Manca) -- PART II NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN INTERPRETERS OF DUTCHNESS -- Chapter Three The Ghosting of the Hudson Valley Dutch (Judith Richardson) -- Chapter Four A Brahmin Goes Dutch: John Lothrop Motley and the Lessons of Dutch History in Nineteenth-Century Boston (Mark A. Peterson) -- PART III MIGRATION AND ASSIMILATION -- Chapter Five "But tho we love old Holland still, we love Columbia more," the Formation of a Dutch-American Subculture in the United States, 1840-1920 (Hans Krabbendam) -- Chapter Six Churches Bigger Than Windmills: Religion and Dutchness in Minnesota, 1885-1928 (Robert Schoone-Jongen) -- Chapter Seven Windmills on the Plains: Vision and Social Memory in Two Dutch Communities in Iowa (Julie Berger Hochstrasser) -- PART IV DUTCH ART AND AMERICAN COLLECTORS -- Chapter Eight Great Expectations: The Golden Age Redeems the Gilded Era (Nancy T. Minty) -- Chapter Nine Old Masters in the New World: The Hudson-Fulton Exhibition of 1909 and its Legacy (Dennis P. Weller) -- PART V DUTCH CULTURAL INFLUENCES IN MODERN AMERICA -- Chapter Ten Crossing the Frontiers of the Unknown: Fred. L. Polak's Road to Pioneer of Futures Studies in the United States (Tity de Vries) -- Chapter Eleven From Bauhaus to Our House to Koolhaas: The Of? ce for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and Modern American Culture (Christopher Pierce) -- EPILOGUE -- Dutchness in Fact and Fiction (Willem Frijhoff) -- Index.