Abstract
Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the making of Dutch Brazil, by Michiel van Groesen, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Highlights
Portugal’s sugar colony of Brazil, where Dutch shipping had played a key role in its early success, became a principal target in the Netherland’s struggle against Hapsburg Spain after the union of the two Iberian monarchies in 1580
The actions of the Dutch West India Company to carry out the war in the Atlantic, its early successes in the 1620s and 1630s, and its failures in the 1640s and 1650s provoked great interest and great controversy, as well as an insatiable appetite for news and analysis that a growing community of journalists, map-makers, visitors, political hacks, and ambitious memorialists tried to supply
Van Groesen demonstrates how the ‘spin-doctors’ for the West India Company used the popular print media to prepare the ground for its return to Brazil in 1630 and for the successful establishment of a sugar colony in Pernambuco and its surrounding areas
Summary
Portugal’s sugar colony of Brazil, where Dutch shipping had played a key role in its early success, became a principal target in the Netherland’s struggle against Hapsburg Spain after the union of the two Iberian monarchies in 1580. – Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the making of Dutch Brazil, by Michiel van Groesen, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017
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