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The Legacy of Dutch Brazil

Michiel van Groesen, Wim Klooster, Stuart B. Schwartz, Mark Meuwese, Roquinaldo Ferreira, Mariana Françozo, Evan Haefeli, Johan Verberckmoes, Neil Safier, Arthur Weststeijn, Rebecca Parker Brienen, Julie Berger Hochstrasser, Joan-Pau Rubiés
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  • Date Published: June 2014
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781107061170

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  • This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the history of Latin America, which leads to a view of Dutch Brazil as self-contained and historically isolated. The Legacy of Dutch Brazil shows that repercussions of the Dutch infiltration in the Southern Hemisphere resonated across the Atlantic Basin and remained long after the fall of the colony. By examining its regional, national, and cosmopolitan legacies, thirteen authors trace the memories and mythologies of Dutch Brazil from the colonial period up until the present day and engage in broader debates on geopolitical and cultural changes at the crossroads of Atlantic and Latin American studies.

    • The first book on Dutch Brazil in decades (most recent synthesis published in 1957)
    • Analyzes the Atlantic world through the lens of a single colony
    • Is a comprehensive addition to scholarship on the Dutch Atlantic and colonial Brazil
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    'Dutch Brazil has languished at historiographic margins, self-contained and poorly integrated into the history of Latin America or the Atlantic world. This exemplary interdisciplinary collection recasts the history of this fascinating time and place. With its meticulous scholarship, Atlantic perspective, heterogeneous chapters, and lengthy bibliography, The Legacy of Dutch Brazil is a timely book of lasting value.' Alison Games, Georgetown University

    'During their seventeenth-century golden age, the Dutch presided for a time over a wholly exceptional colonial society based on the region around Recife in northeast Brazil, which has almost invariably been underestimated by general historians of the early modern Atlantic world. This is because that society lasted barely thirty years from 1624 to 1654. But despite its short duration, Dutch Brazil left an enduring legacy and was remarkable in many ways, and not least for the unrivaled degree of religious mixing and toleration that it permitted, allowing a coexistence of churches, religions, and cultural systems that was then unique in the Americas. Expertly introduced and edited by Michiel van Groesen, this thoroughly up-to-date collection of essays containing much that is new and unfamiliar provides the best overview we have of a legacy that is increasingly coming to be valued at its true worth.' Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

    '… provocatively written, expertly edited papers … highly recommended …' Choice

    'The Legacy of Dutch Brazil tries to answer questions about why Brazil persisted in the colonial imagination and how its mythologies emerged in different times, shapes and places … The book tells the compelling story of an Atlantic and European legacy of the West India Company colony in Brazil. It is clearly positioned within a historiographical lacuna of neglected cultural connections and that of Dutch Brazil in particular.' Joris van den Tol, Itinerario

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    • Date Published: June 2014
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781107061170
    • length: 372 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 157 x 25 mm
    • weight: 0.65kg
    • contains: 31 b/w illus. 5 maps
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction Michiel van Groesen
    Part I. The Geopolitical Legacy:
    1. The geopolitical impact of Dutch Brazil on the Western Hemisphere Wim Klooster
    2. Looking for a new Brazil: crisis and rebirth in the Atlantic world after the fall of Pernambuco Stuart B. Schwartz
    3. From Dutch allies to Portuguese vassals: indigenous peoples in the aftermath of Dutch Brazil Mark Meuwese
    4. From Brazil to West Africa: Dutch-Portuguese rivalry, gold smuggling, and African politics in the Bight of Benin Roquinaldo Ferreira
    Part II. The Cultural Legacy:
    5. Global connections: Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen's collection of curiosities Mariana Françozo
    6. A less Christian Atlantic: the legacy of Dutch tolerance in Brazil Evan Haefeli
    7. How Dutch Brazil affects your emotions: the Antwerp Jesuit Cornelius Hazart on early colonial Brazil Johan Verberckmoes
    8. Beyond Brazilian nature: the editorial itineraries of Marcgraf and Piso's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Neil Safier
    9. Dutch Brazil and the making of free-trade ideology Arthur Weststeijn
    Part III. The National Legacy: From Memory to Mythology:
    10. Heroic memories: admirals of Dutch Brazil in the rise of Dutch national consciousness Michiel van Groesen
    11. Who owns Frans Post?: Collecting Frans Post's Brazilian landscapes Rebecca Parker Brienen
    12. Visual impact: the long legacy of the artists of Dutch Brazil Julie Berger Hochstrasser
    Epilogue: mythologies of Dutch Brazil Joan-Pau Rubiés.

  • Editor

    Michiel van Groesen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
    Michiel van Groesen is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam.

    Contributors

    Michiel van Groesen, Wim Klooster, Stuart B. Schwartz, Mark Meuwese, Roquinaldo Ferreira, Mariana Françozo, Evan Haefeli, Johan Verberckmoes, Neil Safier, Arthur Weststeijn, Rebecca Parker Brienen, Julie Berger Hochstrasser, Joan-Pau Rubiés

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