Review of Philip Dröge, De Tawl: Hoe de Nederlandse taal (bijna) Amerika veroverde, Spectrum, Amsterdam, 2023.

Over at Low-countries.com, I published a review of a new book about the Dutch language in America. The English version is already up here: https://www.the-low-countries.com/article/colonial-echoes-when-americans-spoke-dutch and a Dutch version of this review will appear soon in De Lage Landen magazine.

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  1. MAUREEN DJIKERS · · Reply

    Michael, Attached is my review of the Droege book, to be published in ‘de Halve Maen’, whenever the editor gets to it. i pretty much agree with you on all points, but was so disappointed in the hyperbole, nothing actually new, no deep insight of the book, that my review is a lot more scathing. BTW – Droge does address the second wave of dutch immigration. read again the chapter/section about Paterson. Marcel

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