The Dutch in Brazil 1624-1654

Boxer, C.R.: 1957 Oxford, hardcover, 327 pages, illustrated. C. R. Boxer offers a concise, archival-based history of the Dutch West India Company’s conquest and occupation of northeastern Brazil, charting the rise under Johan Maurits of Nassau, the sugar-driven colonial experiment, religious toleration for Portuguese settlers and Jews, and the intertwined Atlantic war economy of sugar and slavery. Boxer explains how military overreach, WIC mismanagement, local insurgency in Pernambuco, and revived Luso-Brazilian resistance ultimately forced the Dutch from “New Holland” in 1654, despite early naval superiority and administrative successes. In very good condition