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Since the 16th century Europeans had been interpreting the New World not only through words but also through images. European professional artists did not truly start painting South Americas's tropics in loco, however, until the Dutch... more
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      16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish ArtDutch Brazil
In: Richard Kagan and Philip Morgan (Org.). Atlantic Diasporas. Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, p. 123-151.
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      Jewish StudiesPortuguese StudiesJewish HistoryColonial Brazil
400 years after the birth of Johan Maurits von Nassau, and 350 after the Restauração Pernambucana, the University of Salamanca commemorated these events with a Congress about the Dutch count and its time in Brazil. This book compiles most... more
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      Latin American StudiesEarly Modern HistoryBrazilian HistoryColonial Brazilian History
This paper intends to approach the several possibilities of interpretation of the painting called "A village in Brazil", done by the Dutch artist Frans Post, probably very soon after his return to Haarlem, in 1644, after a seven years... more
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      16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish ArtDutch Brazil
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      Colonial AmericaDutch West India CompanyColonial Brazil17th Century Dutch Republic
There are currently only very few special studies about indigenous documents in colonial Brazil. Most of these documents are not yet published or were unknown until recently. The article stresses that the early documents... more
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      Indigenous or Aboriginal StudiesBrazilian HistorySouth American indigenous languagesColonial Brazil
Between 1624 and 1654, the Dutch West India Company occupied part of the northeast of Brazil. A private company, in 1621 it obtained from the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands a monopoly on trade and the authorization to... more
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      Dutch West India CompanyColonial Brazil17th Century Dutch RepublicDutch Brazil
A Capitania da Paraíba durante o Domínio Holandês (1630-1654) foi a segunda maior produtora de açúcar das capitanias capturadas pelos holandeses, como também foram necessárias três expedições para domar a intrépida coragem dos paraibanos,... more
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      Nova História Militar Brasileira (FGV Editora/Dutch BrazilHistória Do Brasil ColonialHistória Marítima E História Militar
From 1630 to 1654 the Dutch West India Company have succeeded in establishing a colony in the Northeast part of Brazil, then under the dominance of Portugal. Its most preeminent governor, Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, administered the... more
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      Colonial BrazilDutch BrazilHistoriografía del arte colonialBrasil Holandês
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      Gift ExchangeColonialismDiplomacyDigital mapping
Durante a primeira fase que compreende o período do Brasil holandês (1630-1636), a qual corresponde, de acordo com Evaldo Cabral de Mello (2007), à fase de conquista e consolidação das campanhas militares promovidas pela Companhia das... more
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      History of BrazilDutch BrazilHistória Do Brasil ColonialBrasil Holandês
É sempre como conquista que a história do Brasil holandês foi citada na documentação holandesa da época, nunca como Colônia. Uma prova de que conhecer detalhadamente o nordeste brasileiro foi sinônimo de uma grande conquista para a... more
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      History of ScienceColonial Brazil17th Century Dutch RepublicHistory of Zoology
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      Dutch BrazilNew-Christians' HistorySephardimHistory of Vila Velha,Itamaracá
This work aims to establish a (mainly) historical look at the Jewish religiosities experienced between 1630 and 1654, in the Captaincy of Pernambuco, then under the military-political domination of the Dutch. It is a sui generis moment in... more
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      History of ReligionHistory of ReligionsJudaismDutch Brazil
Por quase vinte e cinco anos, a Companhia Neerlandesa das Índias Ocidentais ocupou parte do nordeste do Brasil. Tal episódio, pertencente ao longínquo século XVII, permanece um dos temas mais estudados e discutidos dentro e fora do mundo... more
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      Military HistoryEarly Modern HistoryBrazilian HistoryHistory of Daily Life
Este trabalho objetiva refletir sobre os modos pelos quais a representação da paisagem brasileira em mapas renascentistas constituiu parte do projeto de ordenamento espacial do Brasil colonial, utilizando como fonte quatro mapas... more
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      Human GeographyIconographyArt HistoryBrazilian History
Entre os anos de 1630 e 1654, a Companhia Neerlandesa das Índias Ocidentais ocupou parte do nordeste do Brasil. Até os dias atuais, esse episódio constitui um dos temas mais estudados e discutidos dentro e fora do mundo acadêmico. Entre... more
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      Dutch West India CompanyBrasil ColonialDutch Brazil
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      História do BrasilDutch BrazilPernambucoHistoria Colonial De América Latina
Marianne L. Wiesebron (ed.). Oude West Indische Compagnie: correspondentie van de Heren XIX en Notulen van de Hoge en Secrete Raad van Brazilië / Companhia das Índias Ocidentais velha: Cartas enviadas pelos Diretores XIX Atas diárias do... more
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      Dutch West India Company17th Century Dutch RepublicDutch Brazil
Over the years the 1640 naval battle of Paraíba (Brazil) has attracted the attention of several historians, including F.A. Varnhagen, H. Wätjen and J.C. Warnsinck, who made extensive use of Dutch sources. By combining the Dutch and... more
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      Military HistoryMaritime HistoryColonial BrazilHistory of the Portuguese Empire
Apresentação do livro Viagem ao Brasil (1644-1654), Editora CEPE, 2016 / E-book 2019
Org. B. N. Teensma, B. Miranda e L. W. Xavier
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      Dutch West India CompanyDiary StudiesColonial Brazil17th Century Dutch Republic
This article presents a new perspective on the master-slave relationship in New Netherland in order to complement the existing theories on the treatment of slaves in that Dutch colony. It shows how prior to the loss of Dutch Brazil, the... more
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      American HistoryBlack Studies Or African American StudiesLatin American and Caribbean HistoryCatholic Missionary History
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      Intellectual HistoryAnglo-Saxon StudiesBrazilian HistoryDutch West India Company
The main goal of this book is to unlock Hessel Gerritsz' rutter (1628). An unique and beautiful 17th century Dutch treasure. To remove the veil from the Cape Verde Islands in a time that information and products floated over the seas with... more
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      History of West AfricaDutch West India CompanyEarly Modern economic and social history17th Century Dutch Republic
Since the slave population in New Netherland (1614–1664) was small compared to that of other Dutch Atlantic colonies such as Curaçao, Dutch Brazil, and Suriname, it has traditionally received little attention by scholars, including... more
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      SpanishPortuguesePortuguese StudiesNew York history
RIVERO RODRíGUEZ, M.. The Dutch enemy, Count Duke of Olivares and the service of the vassals in the recovery of Bahia of Brazil. Eikón Imago, North America, 9, jul. 2020. Available at: Este trabajo se plantea la lectura de “La... more
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      Thirty Years' WarHistory of BrazilDutch BrazilHistoria Moderna De España
23rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, February 22-23, 2018
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      Dutch BrazilCannibalism, anthropology and historyEarly Modern Travel Literature
This publication focuses on Dutch literature in a global context. Dutch literature is, in fact, much more than just literature from a tiny piece of land at the estuary of the Rhine. From the Caribbean to Southern Africa and from Southeast... more
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      Indonesian StudiesIndonesiaSri LankaSouth African Literature
From 1630 until its fall in 1654, the Dutch West India Company maintained a colony in northeastern Brazil where it tried to profit from the cultivation of sugar using enslaved African labor. Count Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen served as... more
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      SlaverySlave TradeDutch BrazilDutch Atlantic History
Este trabalho objetiva refletir sobre os modos pelos quais a representacao da paisagem brasileira em mapas renascentistas constituiu parte do projeto de ordenamento espacial do Brasil colonial, utilizando como fonte quatro mapas... more
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      Human GeographyIconographyArt HistoryArt
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      Jewish StudiesMobility/MobilitiesMediterranean StudiesReligious Conversion
Writing a history about the Dutch Atlantic used to be easy. First, one would pick and choose one or more quotes from either “the Dutch were not very important in that part of the world”, talking about a Dutch Atlantic “makes as much sense... more
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      Early Modern HistoryAtlantic WorldCaribbean HistoryAtlantic history
The Libri Picturati includes a collection of plant illustrations from seventeenth century Dutch Brazil that is kept in the Jagiellonian library in Krakow since World War II. While many studies focused on the artistic details and history... more
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      Dutch West India CompanyArt of Botanical IllustrationPlant TaxonomyDutch Brazil
This is the edition of the original papers of Fernando Mascarenhas (1587-1651), first count of Torre, appointed governor-general of Brazil and commander in chief of the combined Portuguese and Spanish armada dispatched by King Philip IV... more
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      Early Modern HistoryPortuguese HistoryMaritime HistoryNaval Warfare
This is the proof version of the essay. For copyright reasons, some illustrations have been removed. To see the illustrated, final published version, see the chapter in the volume Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline van Gent (eds), Governing... more
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      Early Modern HistoryVisual CultureColonialismMasculinities
A Dutch mistery solved: in the years 1640 and 1641 the Dutch cities of Deventer and Zwolle broke the rules and produced gold coins looking like the 10-ducat Portuguez to increase their profits in the sugar trade with Dutch Brazil
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      Brazilian HistoryHistória do BrasilDutch BrazilPortugalösers
Una perspectiva comparada para abordar el Brasil holandés (1630-1654).
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      Global HistoryDutch BrazilComparative/Transnational History
The deciphered ciphertexts from the former governor-general of Brazil, António Teles da Silva, reveal two letters from him to the king of Portugal from 1649, while he was a prisoner. The letters were written in Portuguese and found on a... more
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      War StudiesJewish HistoryCryptographyDutch West India Company
This thesis argues that lobbying was an important phenomenon in the seventeenth-century and that it had far-reaching influence on the course of history. Seventeenth-century lobbying took the form of petitions, personal relations, and... more
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      Dutch West India Company17th Century Dutch RepublicAtlantic historyLobbying
‘Redimoesoegedrag’ staat in Suriname voor ‘verraad tegen de eigen groep’. Het begrip gaat terug op slaven die in de 18de eeuw in ruil voor vrijheid aan de zijde van de gouvernementssoldaten vochten tegen de ‘marrons’, gevluchte slaven.... more
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      History of The NetherlandsSuriname historyImmigration of NetherlandsSuriname
Cerca de seis anos antes da conquista de Pernambuco em 1630, que daria início a uma ocupação de quase um quarto de século das capitanias setentrionais do Brasil, a Companhia Neerlandesa das Índias Ocidentais lançou uma empresa com intuito... more
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      History of Alcohol and Drug UseDutch West India CompanyColonial BrazilBrasil Colonial
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      History of ScienceDutch Brazil
Esse texto apresenta o relato de viagem escrito por Lorenz Simon, que esteve no Brasil entre os anos de 1641 e 1654. Além de inserir sua trajetória e seu texto no contexto mais amplo – a migração de mão-de-obra estrangeira para a... more
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      Dutch West India CompanyColonial Brazil17th Century Dutch RepublicDutch overseas history
This is the edition of the original papers of Fernando Mascarenhas (1587-1651), first count of Torre, appointed governor-general of Brazil and commander in chief of the combined Portuguese and Spanish armada dispatched by King Philip IV... more
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      Early Modern HistoryPortuguese HistoryMaritime HistoryNaval Warfare
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      Art HistoryTextilesPostcolonial StudiesGift Exchange
Resumo: O século XVII foi uma época de mudanças intensas e para alguns historiadores tenha sido um período de crises, o qual contribuiu na formação dos Estados europeus modernos e suas colônias. Neste contexto, as Guerras Luso-Holandesas... more
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      Historia MilitarDutch BrazilBrasil HolandêsHistória Da Paraíba
Os objetos materiais têm papeis culturais que ultrapassam o que a categoria ‘objeto’ pode sugerir. Longe de meros suportes ou auxiliares da ação de sujeitos, os objetos participam da construção e desconstrução social das pessoas e suas... more
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      Cultural HistoryEarly Modern HistoryMaterial Culture StudiesGift Exchange
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      Jewish StudiesColonial BrazilJewish IdentitySefardic studies
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      PaintingColonial ArtDutch BrazilAlbert Eckhout
Material objects have cultural attributions which largely surpass what the category 'object' might suggest. Far from simple recipients or auxiliaries to the action of 'subjects', objects participate in the social construction and... more
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      Early Modern HistoryGift ExchangeHistory of CollectionsColonial Brazilian History