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| A HUGUENOT ON THE HACKENSACK: David Demarest and His Legacy |
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Author - DAVID C. MAJOR and JOHN S. MAJOR
Publication Date - August 2007
Number of Pages - 261
ISBN #9780838641521
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Price $55.00 - Price subject to change
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| Description |
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A Huguenot on the Hackensack explores the life and legacy of David Demarest, a seventeenth-century French Protestant who, in middle age, emigrated to New Amsterdam and became one of the earliest settlers of the Hackensack Valley. There he founded a prosperous family that for nearly three centuries retained local influence and high status before being eclipsed by post-World War II economic and demographic changes. Transcending the narrow genealogical antiquarianism and filial pietism of traditional family history, the authors carefully set Demarest and his descendants in the context of their times. The astute patriarch is seen as a man who balanced risk and opportunity to achieve a prosperity that would have been impossible in his native Europe. Some early descendants moved to booming areas in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Kentucky, and beyond, while others stayed close to home and dealt with the rigors of the American Revolution and the dilemmas of religious controversy in New Jersey. Members of later generations adapted to new conditions as rural Bergen County slowly was transformed by railroads and suburban housing. This book illuminates the role of kinship and culture in the Jersey Dutch heartland from colonial times to the modern era.
AWARDS:
Recipient of The National Huguenot Society 2008 Book Award! This award recognizes the best scholarly work on the Huguenots published in 2007.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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| David C. Major, PhD, and John S. Major, PhD, are brothers. They are descended from David Demarest, the early French Huguenot settler in the middle Hackensack Valley who is the subject of this book. The Major brothers are co-authors of 100 One-Night Reads: A Book Lover's Guiden (2001), co-editors of The Future of Africa (2003), and, with their elder brother William Demarest Major, co-authors of a biography of their father, William P. Major: A Bergenfield Life (1999). The Majors are also authors and editors of many books in their professional fields: natural resources and the environment for David, and East Asian History for John. |
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| Scholarly Reviews | |
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke University of Paris VIII Paris France - The Journal of American Histo
David M Riker - The Holland Society of New Yo
Elizabeth Shown Mills Samford University Institute of Genealogy - National Genealogical Society
Michael J Birkner - Twin-Boro News
Paula Wheeler Carlo - Proceedings of the Huguenot o
The Weathercock - Summer 2008
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