Amsterdams Atlantic

Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081224866X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amsterdam's Atlantic written by Michiel van Groesen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles Caspers
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268105677
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracle of Amsterdam written by Charles Caspers and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miracle of Amsterdam presents a “cultural biography” of a Dutch devotional manifestation. According to tradition, on the night of March 15, 1345, a Eucharistic host thrown into a burning fireplace was found intact hours later. A chapel was erected over the spot, and the citizens of Amsterdam became devoted to their “Holy Stead." From the original Eucharistic processions evolved the custom of individual devotees walking around the chapel while praying in silence, and the growing international pilgrimage site contributed to the rise and prosperity of Amsterdam. With the arrival of the Reformation, the Amsterdam Miracle became a point of contention between Catholics and Protestants, and the changing fortunes of this devotion provide us a front-row seat to the challenges facing religion in the world today. Caspers and Margry trace these transformations and their significance through the centuries, from the Catholic medieval period through the Reformation to the present day.

Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004348034
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Americas in Print written by Michiel van Groesen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which early modern Europe gathered information and manufactured knowledge about the Americas, and used it to further their colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Marco Polo Travel Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9783829706513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amsterdam Marco Polo Guide written by Marco Polo and published by Marco Polo Travel Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Amsterdam written by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dirk Barreveld
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409278174
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Hudson and the Rise and Fall of New Amsterdam written by Dirk Barreveld and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1609 a hand full of sturdy sailors watched with amazement the shores they were approaching. Their ship, the Halve Maen, came from The Netherlands. Amsterdam, their place of origin, was the worldâs commercial center. The captain of the ship was named Henry Hudson, he was British. The ship was small, it had a crew of only 16 men. Some 15 years later a few clever businessmen from Amsterdam established a permanent basis at the mouth of the Hudson River: New Amsterdam.

Author : Markus Balkenhol
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800731612
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracing Slavery written by Markus Balkenhol and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445624060
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SS Nieuw Amsterdam written by William H. Miller and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story in words and pictures of Holland America Line’s Art Deco masterpiece.

Author : Geert Mak
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409000850
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amsterdam written by Geert Mak and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the city's soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recreates the lives of the early Amsterdammers, and traces Amsterdam's progress from waterlogged settlement to a major financial centre and thriving modern metropolis

Author : Morris Coster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Amsterdam Gazette written by Morris Coster and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: