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First published in 1809 Knickerbockers History of New York presents the rise and decline of Dutch New Amsterdam through the supposedly learned chronicles of Diedrich Knickerbocker Irvings fictional antiquarian Its mock-heroic narrative extravagant digressions comic pedantry and deliberate distortions of historical fact parody both conventional historiography and the grand national narratives of the early republic Beneath its burlesque treatment o...Seguir leyendo