With no democratic experience and severe economic problems many Europeans saw dictatorship as the only way to prevent instability.
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Most famous of the governors, Peter Stuyvesant, was also the most headstrong and shortsighted.… …of the Dutch period was Peter Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland in 1647–64. In 1658 Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch governor of New Netherland, established the settlement of Nieuw Haarlem
