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Russell Shorto, The Island at the Centre of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2005. xiv + 384 pp. ISBN: 0-385-50349-0 (pbk.).
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