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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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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.).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

Simon Middleton
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University of East Anglia

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Book Reviews: North America
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2005

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1 Shorto, Russell, Gospel Truth: The New Image of Jesus Emerging from Science and History (New York, NY: Riverhead Trade, 1998)Google Scholar; and his Saints and Madmen: How Pioneering Psychiatrists Are Creating a New Science of the Soul (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1999).Google Scholar

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