Hans Krabbendam

Four Centuries of Dutch-american Relations: 1609-2009 Hans Krabbendam

Publisher Marketing: Since Henry Hudson landed on Manhattan in 1609, the peoples of the Netherlands and North America have been inextricably linked. This work, written by a team of nearly 100 Dutch and American scholars, offers a comprehensive history of this bilateral relationship. Review Citations: Choice 09/01/2010 (EAN 9781438430133, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Krabbendam, Hans Hans Krabbendam is assistant director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands. Contributor Bio:  Van Minnen, Cornelis A Cornelis A. van Minnen is Executive Director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands, and Professor of American History at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of "American Diplomats in the Netherlands, 1815-1850,"Contributor Bio:  Scott-Smith, Giles Giles Scott-Smith is Senior Researcher with the Roosevelt Study Center and holds the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Transatlantic Relations since WWII at Leiden University, the Netherlands. In 2012 he was appointed Chair of the Transatlantic Studies Association, and he is currently one of the editors for the Key Studies in Diplomacy book series of Bloomsbury Press. His research interests cover the role of non-state actors and public diplomacy in the maintenance of inter-state (particularly transatlantic) relations. His major publications include "Western Anti-Communism and the Interdoc Network: Cold War Internationale" (2012), "Networks of Empire: The U. S. State Department's Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France, and Britain 1950-70" (2008), and "The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and Post-war American Hegemony" (2002)"."