The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century

(Louisiana State University Press) Looking at the colonization efforts in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth century, Thompson explains how the English, Dutch, and Swedish jockeyed for regional control. The book goes on to explain how the power struggle resonated in both Europe and America. Thompson is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.