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Rated: 3 times. Average rating 4.67
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A portrait of the ambitious seventeenth-century woman merchant documents how she built a trading empire in New Amsterdam while managing a home that included her five children, describing how she and her female ancestors transformed her storeroom into the Philipse Manor Hall mansion and enjoyed prestige until the Revolution. 35,000 first printing.
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