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1636 NEW AMSTERDAM Bloodless Capitulation Shapes Modern New York — Part Two Russell Shorto, author of Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America, details the bloodless transition of New Amsterdam into New York through articles of transfer negotiated between Richard Nicolls and Peter Stuyvesant. The discussion tracks colonial boundary disputes, the Anglo-Dutch wars, and the ultimate irony of the 1688 Glorious Revolution carrying Dutch financial systems into England. (4)
