Amsterdam's Atlantic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amsterdam's Atlantic write by Michiel van Groesen. This book was released on 2017. Amsterdam's Atlantic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1624 the Dutch West India Company established the colony of Brazil. Only thirty years later, the Dutch Republic handed over the colony to Portugal, never to return to the South Atlantic. Because Dutch Brazil was the first sustained Protestant colony in Iberian America, the events there became major news in early modern Europe and shaped a lively print culture. In Amsterdam's Atlantic, historian Michiel van Groesen shows how the rise and tumultuous fall of Dutch Brazil marked the emergence of a "public Atlantic" centered around Holland's capital city. Amsterdam served as Europe's main hub for news from the Atlantic world, and breaking reports out of Brazil generated great excitement in the city, which reverberated throughout the continent. Initially, the flow of information was successfully managed by the directors of the West India Company. However, when Portuguese sugar planters revolted against the Dutch regime, and tales of corruption among leading administrators in Brazil emerged, they lost their hold on the media landscape, and reports traveled more freely. Fueled by the powerful local print media, popular discussions about Brazil became so bitter that the Amsterdam authorities ultimately withdrew their support for the colony. The self-inflicted demise of Dutch Brazil has been regarded as an anomaly during an otherwise remarkably liberal period in Dutch history, and consequently generations of historians have neglected its significance. 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.
Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century
Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century write by Yda Schreuder. This book was released on 2018-10-23. Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the “Portuguese Nation,” conducting trade from the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil. Examining the “Myth of the Dutch,” the “Sephardic Moment,” and the impact of the British Navigation Acts, Yda Schreuder focuses attention on Barbados and Jamaica and demonstrates how Amsterdam remained Europe’s primary sugar refining center through most of the seventeenth century and how Sephardic merchants played a significant role in sustaining the sugar trade.
Tracing Slavery
Tracing Slavery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracing Slavery write by Markus Balkenhol. This book was released on 2021-08-13. Tracing Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country’s slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. Developing the notion of “trace” as a seminal notion to explore this paradox, this book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past – often in almost unconscious ways – and weave it into their perceptions of present-day issues.
Amsterdam Marco Polo Guide
Amsterdam Marco Polo Guide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amsterdam Marco Polo Guide write by Anneke Bokern. This book was released on 2012. Amsterdam Marco Polo Guide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marco Polo Guides are packed with unique insider tips. Straightforward information is presented in an engaging format which will appeal to the young and the young at heart. Includes a street atlas and a separate pull-out map.
Roaring Metropolis
Roaring Metropolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roaring Metropolis write by Daniel Amsterdam. This book was released on 2016-04-22. Roaring Metropolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists in the early twentieth century as they advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. Focusing on Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, the book traces businessmen's quest to build cities and nurture an urban citizenry friendly to capitalism.
