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Читаю, с большим удовольствием, книжку Gotham: The History Of New York City to 1898. Написано хорошо, с юмором, куча разных интересных фактов. Теперь понятно, откуда названия местные взялись и вообще.
Любому Нью-Йоркеру эта книжка будет очень даже интересна. Я буду периодически приводить всякие фактики.
Прелесть Киндла в том, что можно делать пометки/закладки. Я по исторической линии нахожусь в районе 1640х годов, во времена Нового Амстердама под руководством Голландской Вест-Индийской Компании. Просто нельзя не привести такой забавный пассаж:
Not only were there foo few women in New Amsterdam, but too few women disposed to Calvinist order and decorum. In Europe, unmarried Dutch women struck foreigners, especially the French, as shockingly improper, given to public kissing, lewd talk, and a general lack of regard for chastity, though married housewives were as a rule accounted pillars of sobriety and virtue. On the colonial frontier, mores grew even more relaxed. Over and over again the magistrates came up against bawds and doxies like Nanne Beeche, who went to a pаrty at the house of the wheelwright Claes Cornelissen and "notwithstanding her husband's presence, fumbled at the front of the breeches of most all of those who were present", setting off a near riot. Grietjen Reyniers, wife of Anthony "the Turk" Jansen, was said to have "pulled the shirt of some sailors out of their breeches and in her house measured the male members of three sailors on a broomstick" -- which perhaps explained why when the crew of a departing ship caught sight of her on the shore they began chanting, "Whore, Whore, Two pound butter's whore!". When she and her husband were finally expelled in 1639, they took up farming on Long Island in the vicinity of what is now New Utrecht. Their place was known for years as Turk's Plantation. A further complication here was the proximity of native women who seemed entirely lacking in sexual restraint -- "utterly unchaste and shamefully promiscuous", in the words of Adriaen van der Donck. They "are exceedingly addicted to whoring", agreed Dominie Johannes Megapolensis, who arrived in 1642 to serve as the minister to Rensselaerswyck. "They will lie with a man for the value one, two or three schillings, and our Dutchmen run after them very much". The dominie's point was clear: not until this sexual carnival had been brought under control (by way of law as well as the immigration of respectable women from Europe) could New Amsterdam be considered a properly settled colony, much less a stable community.
Любому Нью-Йоркеру эта книжка будет очень даже интересна. Я буду периодически приводить всякие фактики.
Прелесть Киндла в том, что можно делать пометки/закладки. Я по исторической линии нахожусь в районе 1640х годов, во времена Нового Амстердама под руководством Голландской Вест-Индийской Компании. Просто нельзя не привести такой забавный пассаж:
Not only were there foo few women in New Amsterdam, but too few women disposed to Calvinist order and decorum. In Europe, unmarried Dutch women struck foreigners, especially the French, as shockingly improper, given to public kissing, lewd talk, and a general lack of regard for chastity, though married housewives were as a rule accounted pillars of sobriety and virtue. On the colonial frontier, mores grew even more relaxed. Over and over again the magistrates came up against bawds and doxies like Nanne Beeche, who went to a pаrty at the house of the wheelwright Claes Cornelissen and "notwithstanding her husband's presence, fumbled at the front of the breeches of most all of those who were present", setting off a near riot. Grietjen Reyniers, wife of Anthony "the Turk" Jansen, was said to have "pulled the shirt of some sailors out of their breeches and in her house measured the male members of three sailors on a broomstick" -- which perhaps explained why when the crew of a departing ship caught sight of her on the shore they began chanting, "Whore, Whore, Two pound butter's whore!". When she and her husband were finally expelled in 1639, they took up farming on Long Island in the vicinity of what is now New Utrecht. Their place was known for years as Turk's Plantation. A further complication here was the proximity of native women who seemed entirely lacking in sexual restraint -- "utterly unchaste and shamefully promiscuous", in the words of Adriaen van der Donck. They "are exceedingly addicted to whoring", agreed Dominie Johannes Megapolensis, who arrived in 1642 to serve as the minister to Rensselaerswyck. "They will lie with a man for the value one, two or three schillings, and our Dutchmen run after them very much". The dominie's point was clear: not until this sexual carnival had been brought under control (by way of law as well as the immigration of respectable women from Europe) could New Amsterdam be considered a properly settled colony, much less a stable community.