1 Stols, Eddy, ‘“Brasyl Versuymd” Andersom Gezien. De Brazilianen over hun Hollands Verleden’ in:Lechner, J. and Vogel, H.Ph. eds, De Nieuwe Wereld en de Lage Landen. Onbekende Aspeclen van Vijfhonderd Jaar Ontmoetingen tussen Latijns Amerika en Nederland (Amsterdam 1992) 126–127, 129–130. A French translation is published asGoogle Scholar‘Saudades do Brasil: Variations Hollandaises sur Nostalgies Brésiliennes’ in: Crouzet, François, Rolland, Dennis and Bonnichon, Phillippe eds, Pour L'Histoire du Brésil. Mélanges Offerts à K de Queirós Mattoso (Paris 2000) 595–606Google Scholar.

2 The best monograph on the WIC is Heijer, Henk de n, De Geschiedenis van de WIC (Zutphen 1994).Google Scholar

3 The Dutch translation had two editions, De Nederlanders in Brazilie, H.G. Nijk transl. (2nd ed.; Amsterdam 1993 [1977])Google Scholar

4 Emmer, Pieter C. and Klooster, Wim W., ‘The Dutch Atlantic, 1600–1800: Expansion without Empire’, Itinerario 23/2 (1999) 48–69. Their interpretation is that the settlement colonies were not profitable, and that the compan y lacked migrants due to religious tolerance in the United Provinces.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 The Brazilian embassy in the Netherlands gave a special subsidy for the publication of the book. José Antônio Gonsalves de Mello, Nederlanders in Brazilie (1624–1654).Google ScholarDe lnvloed van de Holtandse Beietiing op het Leven en de Cultuur in Noord-Brazilië, Visser, G.N. and transl, B.N. Teensma. (Zutphen 2001) 34Google Scholar.

6 Although outdated, this bibliography gives a good sense of the massive number of Brazilian publications on the topic: Rodrigues, José Honório, Historiografia e Bibliografta doDominio Holandês no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro 1949), apud Stols, ‘Brasil versymd’, 116.Google Scholar

7 Tempo dos Flamengos. Influência da Occupação Holandesa na Vida e Cultura (Rio de Janeiro 1947) introduction.Google Scholar

8 Two excellent publications commemorating his 300th year of death are Zo Wijd de Wereld Strekt. Tentoonstelling naar aanleiding van Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen op 20 december 1979 (Den Haag 1979) andGoogle Scholaral, Ernst van den Boogaard et. eds, Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen. Essays on the Occasion of the Tercentenary of his Death (The Hague 1979)Google Scholar.

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11 The biographies are Filipe Bandeira de Melo, Tenente de Mestre de Campo General do Estado do Brasil (Recife 1954);Google ScholarHenrique Dias: Govemador dos Crioulos, Negrose Mulatos do Brasil (2nd ed.; Recife 1988);Google ScholarAntônio Dias Cardoso, Sargento-Mor do Têrço de Infantaria de Pemambuco (Recife 1954);Google ScholarFrei Manuel Calado do Salvador, Religiosoda Ordem de São Paulo, Pregador Apostólico par sua Santidade, Cronista da Restauração (Recife 1954);Google ScholarFrancisco de Figueiroa, Mestre de Campo do Têrço das Ilhas em Pemambuco (Recife 1954); andGoogle ScholarD. Antônio Filipe Camarão, Capitão-Mor dos Índios da Costa do Norteste do Brasil (Recife 1954). A series of ten biographies were published commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the RestorationGoogle Scholar.

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