Amsterdam's Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil

Michiel van Groesen

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2017

Amsterdam's Atlantic

Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil

Michiel van Groesen

In the series The Early Modern Americas

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293456

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Amsterdam's Atlantic puts Dutch Brazil back on the front pages and argues that the way the Amsterdam media constructed Atlantic events was a key element in the transformation of public opinion in Europe.

Author / Editor information

Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University.

Reviews

"By focusing on the flow of information from Brazil to Amsterdam, Europe's foremost news center in the seventeenth century, van Groesen delivers on his promise to show the relevance of Atlantic history for the Dutch Republic and vice versa. Amsterdam's Atlantic will not only be an eye-opener to historians unacquainted with the Dutch Atlantic but also surprise those familiar with the field."—Wim Klooster, Clark University

"Van Groesen, with his thoughtful investigation of the movement of news and information . . . suggests how historians of other parts of the Atlantic world with less developed cultures of print might expose the routes that information took and the choices or circumstances that led to either its dissemination or its obstruction."—William and Mary Quarterly

"In a commendable feat of archival work . . . Michiel van Groesen breaks new ground in his account of the Dutch West India Company's ultimately aborted attempt to seize Portuguese sugar colonies in Brazil."—Journal of Early Modern History

"Invoking an impressively wide and rich set of sources, Michiel van Groesen provides a sharply focused history of the rise and fall of the Dutch West India Company's largest and most important colony in South America."—Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington

"Van Groesen shows the development of popular participation in politics and the rise of interest in mass psychology, and he offers an early example of the emergence of print media and official attempts to control it."—Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction. Amsterdam, Dutch Brazil, and the Atlantic World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Anticipation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Chapter 2. Jubilation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 3. Appropriation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Chapter 4. Friction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Chapter 5. “Amsterdamnified” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 6. Recollection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Conclusion. Toward a Public Atlantic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 51 illus.
Keywords: American History; History; HA; European History; World History

eBook

Published: October 11, 2016
ISBN: 9780812293456