In search for a monograph about the Dutch settlements in North America, particularly in or around what is now New York State. I will use this text to write an academic review and basis for a 10 page essay later this academic quarter.
A scholar who particularly impresses is Donna Merwick. She has made a career out of Dutch settlement in New York State. Born in Chicago, she's lived and taught in Australia for perhaps 50 years; it is nicely ironic that perhaps the most distinguished scholar of Dutch New York is more or less on the other side of the planet.
Books
Death of a Notary: Conquest & Change In Colonial New York Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999.
- interesting as an example of "microhistory"; an exhaustively examined "small" event.
The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland. By Donna Merwick (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
- interesting as a study of the Dutch East India Company and Dutch - native American interactions
Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences. By Donna Merwick, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1990.
- interesting for the study of "what happens to local power relationships when the sovereign changes"
. . . and there are a ton of shorter journal articles you can find on JSTOR