Reading Material

On this page, you will find an incomplete and ever-evolving bibliography that relate to the Quilombo dos Palmares and its broader context. Many of these entries will receive a dedicated post to them in the future.

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Aguilar, Nelson. Negro de corpo e alma = black in body and soul. São Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo; Associação Brasil 500 Anos Artes Visuais, 2000.

Barlaeus, Casper. The History of Brazil under the Governorship of Count Johan Maurits of Nassau, 1636–1644. Edited and translated by Blanche T. van Berckel Ebeling-Koning. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.

Bleichmar, Daniela and Peter C. Mancall, eds. Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Brienen, Rebecca Parker. Visions of Savage Paradise: Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

de Bruin, Alexander. “Frans Post: Animals in Brazil.” Master Drawings 54, no. 3 (2016): 292–368.

den Heijer, Henk, and Bea Brommer, eds. Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch West India Company I. Voorburg, The Netherlands: Atlas Maior, 2011.

[Note: I have been unable to consult this item as it could not be acquired by Northwestern University’s Interlibrary Loan Department. This failure demonstrates the difficulty of pursuing this type of research even within the boundaries of a wealthy academic institution; it as such underscores the extreme lack of accessibility of historical material for the populations for whom this is their heritage. If Northwestern. One of the goals of this project is to make this obscure material available to all who have an interest and are not embedded in the privileges of American academia.]

Fromont, Cécile. “Dancing for the King of Congo, from Early Modern Central Africa to Slavery-Era Brazil,” Colonial Latin American Review 22, no. 2 (2013): 184-208.

Gaudio, Michael. Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Gordon, Avery F. The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018.

van Groesen, Michiel. Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Klein, Herbert S., and Francisco Vidal Luna. Slavery in Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Klooster, Wim. The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016.

Lewis, G. Malcolm, ed. Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Lips, Julius E. The Savage Hits Back; or, The White Man through Native Eyes. Translated by Vincent Benson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1937.

Massing, Jean Michel. “From Dutch Brazil to the West Indies: The Paper Image of the Ideal Sugar Plantation.” In Studies in Imagery II: The World Discovered. Edited by Jean Michel Massing, 172–195. London: Pindar, 2007.

Ogundiran, Akinwumi, and Toyin Falola, eds. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Postma, Johannes. The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1815. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Price, Richard. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

Quilley, Geoff, and Kay Dian Kriz, eds. An Economy of Colour: Visual Culture and the Atlantic World, 1660–1830. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2003.

Richards, John F. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Rogers, J. Daniel, and Samuel M. Wilson, eds. Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas. New York: Plenum, 1993.

Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. New York: Knopf, 1987.

Schmidt, Benjamin. Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570–1670. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Silva, Filipa Ribeiro da. Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa: Empires, Merchants and the Atlantic System, 1580–1674. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2011.

Strum, Daniel. The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands (1595–1630). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.

Sutton, Elizabeth. Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012.

Whitehead, Peter J., and Marinus Boeseman. A Portrait of Dutch 17th-Century Brazil: Animals, Plants and People by the Artists of Johan Maurits of Nassau. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1989.

Wiesebron, Marianne, ed. Brazilië in de Nederlandse archieven (1624–1654)/O Brasil em arquivos neerlandeses (1624–1654). 5 vols. Leiden, The Netherlands: Leiden University Press, 2004–2013.

Zandvliet, Kees. Mapping for Money: Maps, Plans and Topographic Paintings and Their Role in Dutch Overseas Expansion during the 16th and 17th Centuries. Amsterdam: Batavian Lion, 2002.