The legacy of Dutch Brazil /
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
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| Description: | x, 363 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10072816 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Geopolitical Legacy
- 1. The geopolitical impact of Dutch Brazil on the Western Hemisphere
- 2. Looking for a new Brazil: crisis and rebirth in the Atlantic world after the fall of Pernambuco
- 3. From Dutch allies to Portuguese vassals: indigenous peoples in the aftermath of Dutch Brazil
- 4. From Brazil to West Africa: Dutch-Portuguese rivalry, gold smuggling, and African politics in the Bight of Benin
- Part II. The Cultural Legacy
- 5. Global connections: Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen's collection of curiosities
- 6. A less Christian Atlantic: the legacy of Dutch tolerance in Brazil
- 7. How Dutch Brazil affects your emotions: the Antwerp Jesuit Cornelius Hazart on early colonial Brazil
- 8. Beyond Brazilian nature: the editorial itineraries of Marcgraf and Piso's Historia Naturalis
- 9. Dutch Brazil and the making of free-trade ideology
- Part III. The National Legacy: From Memory to Mythology
- 10. Heroic memories: admirals of Dutch Brazil in the rise of Dutch national consciousness
- 11. Who owns Frans Post?: Collecting Frans Post's Brazilian landscapes
- 12. Visual impact: the long legacy of the artists of Dutch Brazil
- Epilogue: mythologies of Dutch Brazil
