2005 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. Exceptional for its comprehensive coverage of the discovery, settlement, and political, social, cultural, and economic life of New York City under the Dutch and the Stuarts, this work remains the foundation stone for historical studies of the city and also early colonial America. The author also treats in detail relations with the Indians, the administrations of the various Dutch and English governors, discontents and rebellions, the evolution of political organization. The work closes with a full account of the Jacob Leisler episode. Unabridged reprint of the original New York: 1909 edition. 533 + 640 pages. Softcover. Set of 2 Volumes.