Book Launch: Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009 - Sept 18, 2009

September 18, 2009

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The Wilson Center's European Studies Program, in cooperation with the Netherland-America Foundation, Roosevelt Study Center, and the Embassy of the Netherlands, co-hosted the book launch of: Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009 on Friday, September 18th, 2009.

To view a webcast of the book launch, please click here.

The event featured:

Renée Jones-Bos, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States

L. Paul Bremer III, former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands

Cornelis A. van Minnen, Director of the Roosevelt Study Center and Professor of American History at Ghent University, Belgium

Hans Krabbendam, Assistant Director of the Roosevelt Study Center and the author of The Model Man: A Life of Edward William Bok, 1863-1930

Giles Scott-Smith, Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Study Center and Ernst H. van der Beugel Professor of Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Since Henry Hudson arrived on Manhattan island in 1609, the peoples of the Netherlands and North America have built their relationship in various ways. Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations,1609-2009, written by a team of nearly one hundred Dutch and American scholars, is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of this bilateral relationship. Close to 1200-pages long, this illustrated volume covers the main paths of contacts, conflicts and common plans and is based on the most up-to-date research in the field. From the first exploratory contacts in the early seventeenth century to the intense and multifaceted exchanges in the early twenty-first, bilateral relations between the United States and the Netherlands are an essential part of a larger transatlantic interdependent framework.