ZION ON THE HUDSON. DUTCH NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY IN THE AGE OF REVIVALS

New Brunswick, New Jersey:Rutgers University Press. (2000). xvi+284pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book has light soiling to page edges fron dust residue, but otherwise is in very good clean condition inside and out. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with light wear along edges but still in very good condition. *"The Dutch came to the New World in the seventeenth century as explorers and traders, but religion soon followed, for it was accepted in the Netherlands that state and church were mutually benefited by advancing the "True Christian Religion." The influence of "Dutchness"--defined as loyalty to what are presumed to be the distinctive qualities of Dutch national character and culture--persisted in New York and New Jersey for more than two hundred years after Dutch emigration ended. Why?"...dj