The legacy of Dutch Brazil / edited by Michiel van Groesen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Groesen, Michiel van, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dutch.

History.

Brazil--History--Dutch Conquest, 1624-1654.

Brazil.

Dutch--Brazil--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

x, 363 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction : what persisted and what persists of Dutch Brazil : the legacy of an interlude / Michiel van groesen, University of Amsterdam

The geopolitical impact of Dutch Brazil on the Western Hemisphere / Wim Klooster, Clark University

Looking for a new Brazil : crisis and rebirth in the Atlantic world after the fall of Pernambuco / Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University

From Dutch allies to Portuguese vassals : indigenous peoples in the aftermath of Dutch Brazil / Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg

From Brazil to West Africa : Dutch-Portuguese rivalry, gold-smuggling, and African politics in the Bight of Benin / Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University

Global connections : Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen's collection of curiosities / Mariana Françozo, Leiden University

A less Christian Atlantic : the legacy of Dutch tolerance in Brazil / Evan Haefeli, Columbia University

How Dutch Brazil affects your emotions : the Antwerp Jesuit Cornelius Hazart on early colonial Brazil / Johan Verberckmoes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Beyond Brazilian nature : the editorial itineraries of Marcgraf and Piso's Historia naturalis brasiliae / Neil Safier, John Carter Brown Library, Providence

Dutch Brazil and the making of free trade ideology / Arthur Weststeijn, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome

Heroic memories : admirals of Dutch Brazil in the rise of Dutch national consciousness / Michiel van Groesen, University of Amsterdam

Who owns Frans Post? : collecting Frans Post's Brazilian landscapes / Rebecca Parker Brienen, Oklahoma State University

Visual impact : the long legacy of the artists of Dutch Brazil / Julie Berger Hochstrasser, University of Iowa

Epilogue : mythologies of Dutch Brazil / Joan-Pau Rubiés, Icrea Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1107061172

9781107061170

9781107687554

1107687551

OCLC:

869367649

Publisher Number:

99959639406