Few leaders of Dutch colonial ventures in the Atlantic World have a reputation worse than that of Willem Kieft, Director of New Netherland from 1638 to his departure from the colony in 1647. Reassessing Kieft’s reputation requires placing him firmly in his Dutch and Amsterdam background. Tracing his family networks, two of Kieft’s Dutch colonial role models (one from the Dutch East Indies, the other from Dutch Brazil) emerge: Laurens Reael and Johannes van Walbeeck. Interpreting his conduct in New Netherland in the light of these role models and of prevalent notions of social hierarchy and precepts of leadership in the Dutch Republic leads to a revised and more nuanced view of Kieft’s conduct as Director of New Netherland.

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好名声和坏名声

很少有荷兰人在大西洋世界的殖民企业领导人的名声比 Willem Kieft 更糟糕，他从 1638 年到 1647 年离开殖民地担任新尼德兰总督。重新评估 Kieft 的声誉需要把他牢牢地放在他的荷兰和阿姆斯特丹背景中。追溯他的家庭关系网，基夫特的两个荷兰殖民榜样（一个来自荷属东印度群岛，另一个来自荷属巴西）出现了：Laurens Reael 和 Johannes van Walbeeck。根据这些榜样以及荷兰共和国普遍存在的社会等级观念和领导准则来解释他在新荷兰的行为，可以使人们对基夫特作为新荷兰董事的行为产生一种修正的、更微妙的看法。