Susanah Shaw Romney
Publications
New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within an Atlantic economy and the nascent colony of New Netherland.