The American Diary of Jacob Van Hinte, Author of the Classic Immigrant Study Netherlanders in America
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More About This Title The American Diary of Jacob Van Hinte, Author of the Classic Immigrant Study Netherlanders in America
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George Harinck
— VU University Amsterdam
"This publication of Van Hinte's personal diary is a welcome addition to his groundbreaking bookNetherlanders in America (1928). It sheds light on the Dutchman behind the stunning accomplishment of writing, after traveling in the US in 1921 for less than two months, what is still the most important book on Dutch immigrants in the United States. It is a joy to read: amazing how he managed to interview so many people and collect so much material, charming how he reveled in the Dutchness he encountered in the Dutch-American communities, and intriguing what this bachelor remarks on women, their dresses, posture, and hair. The man behind the book comes alive in this extensively annotated diary, and at the same time it offers an interesting insight into the daily practice of academic research."
Hans Krabbendam
— Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg
"This diary is an indispensable source for understanding Jacob Van Hinte, the author of the seminal work on Dutch emigration to the United States. By revealing Van Hinte's expectations and key informants, whom he brilliantly characterized, this meticulously annotated source allows us to witness the birth of a classic. The reader discovers how the Dutch immigrants cast a charming spell on the author. . . Full of wit and wisdom, this travel and research diary re-enacts the discovery of Dutch cultural treasures in America in the early twentieth-century, which in the process converted Van Hinte into an 'Americophile.'"
Bob Swierenga
— Van Raalte Institute, Hope College
"Few research scholars keep diaries as detailed as that of Netherlander Jacob Van Hinte, when he visited Dutch-American settlements from Paterson, New Jersey to Orange City, Iowa in a whirlwind five-week trip by boat and train in 1921. It was his one and only North American excursion, and he made the most of it, meeting community leaders and everyday folks, collecting historical materials, and imprinting the lay of the land' in his mind. . . Reading this unique American travel account will whet the appetite to take up Netherlanders in America, the classic immigrant study that resulted from it."
— VU University Amsterdam
"This publication of Van Hinte's personal diary is a welcome addition to his groundbreaking bookNetherlanders in America (1928). It sheds light on the Dutchman behind the stunning accomplishment of writing, after traveling in the US in 1921 for less than two months, what is still the most important book on Dutch immigrants in the United States. It is a joy to read: amazing how he managed to interview so many people and collect so much material, charming how he reveled in the Dutchness he encountered in the Dutch-American communities, and intriguing what this bachelor remarks on women, their dresses, posture, and hair. The man behind the book comes alive in this extensively annotated diary, and at the same time it offers an interesting insight into the daily practice of academic research."
Hans Krabbendam
— Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg
"This diary is an indispensable source for understanding Jacob Van Hinte, the author of the seminal work on Dutch emigration to the United States. By revealing Van Hinte's expectations and key informants, whom he brilliantly characterized, this meticulously annotated source allows us to witness the birth of a classic. The reader discovers how the Dutch immigrants cast a charming spell on the author. . . Full of wit and wisdom, this travel and research diary re-enacts the discovery of Dutch cultural treasures in America in the early twentieth-century, which in the process converted Van Hinte into an 'Americophile.'"
Bob Swierenga
— Van Raalte Institute, Hope College
"Few research scholars keep diaries as detailed as that of Netherlander Jacob Van Hinte, when he visited Dutch-American settlements from Paterson, New Jersey to Orange City, Iowa in a whirlwind five-week trip by boat and train in 1921. It was his one and only North American excursion, and he made the most of it, meeting community leaders and everyday folks, collecting historical materials, and imprinting the lay of the land' in his mind. . . Reading this unique American travel account will whet the appetite to take up Netherlanders in America, the classic immigrant study that resulted from it."
