A Week to Remember: Dutch Publishers and the Competition for News from Brazil, 26 August-2 September 1624.

The Dutch conquest of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil in May 1624 constituted the first major defeat for the Habsburg monarchy in the New World. When the good news reached the United Provinces in the final week of August, newspapermen and publishers did their level best to quickly provide the public wit...

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Published in:	Quaerendo Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 26 - 50
Main Author:	van Groesen, Michiel
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers Spring2010
Subjects:	War in the press Dutch conquest of Brazil, 1624-1654 Newspaper publishing West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands) Gossip in mass media Jansz, Broer Van Hilten, Jan Visscher, Claes Jansz Maps History of the Netherlands Seventeenth century History Brazil Netherlands
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