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Dutch-American Arts and Letters in Historical Perspective

Devoted to the exploration of the arts in the formation of a Dutch American subculture, this volume contains papers from the Sixteenth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies (AADAS), Holland, Michigan, June 2007.

The result of 鈥渢his colorful palette of essays鈥� (as Hans Krabbendam says in his introduction to the book) shows that 鈥淎lthough developing the arts was not a priority of the pioneers, they did develop, thanks to a well-developed network of communication鈥� and were important in the 鈥減rocess of selecting and preserving elements of the past for future use in shaping cultural and ethnic identities on both sides of the Atlantic.鈥�