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Concrete
Burning Man Festival Site
Burro Schmidt Tunnel
Bridal Cave
Branson
Braddock
Thames Barrier – Holding Back the Sea
A Line Through Time: The Prime Meridian, Greenwich
It looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys
Will the real Amazon please stand up?
The contested origins of Fortaleza
Echoes of empire: On Itaparica, where Dutch ambition met Machiavellian brutality
A secretary’s plea for a colonial vision
How a dinnerless palace ended a colonial reign
Tension at the top: From Fort Maurits to the heart of a colonial power struggle
What if the Dutch had stayed?
Slave-Smuggling, Power, and the Humanist Prince of Dutch Brazil
How Livorno’s Jews Quietly Shaped Dutch Brazil
From monopoly to compromise
The Poti: Catholics and Calvinists
A Dutch Amazon
Becoming part of the lexicon
The spectacle
A good trade
The German polymath
The department of government expansion
Death of a prince
Nassau in love
Introducing the Pre-Adamites
Dutch Brazil in academia
To do battle
Selective memories
Memories of the Dutch
The man with the wooden leg
The colonial governor who ‘went native’
The role of women in Dutch Brazil
The army remembers
Same same, but different
Playing with blocks
Just the facts, ma’am
Becoming governor of Dutch Brazil
To colonize, or be colonized
Resilience as strategy
A novel set in Maurice’s Recife
370 years since the Dutch surrender
The Dutch woman annoying Dutch men
Sins beneath the equator
Resistance is not futile
The Flemish play Brazilian football
The great facade
From Recife, to Berlin, to Krakow
Easier for an ox to fly than for Nassau to be a hero
Unknown means unloved
Looking back anew
The film ‘New Amsterdam’
The theatre of the heroines of Tejucupapo
History’s on the streets
A buried fort
A battle! A spectacle!
Colonisers colonized by cassava
The demonic parrot
The first Brazilian beer
To resist the Dutch
The legend of the red house
If not the Dutch, the Swedes!
From crises to defeat
Golden, for some
The Maurice de Nassau University
Indigenous knowledge in the war against the Dutch
Painting triumphs
Fighting the Dutch through the ceramics of Francesco Brennand
Heroines still celebrated today: The women of Tejucupapo
The first Pole to walk on the bottom of the sea
Governing Dutch Brazil
The Maurice de Nassau bridge
The civilized as human traffickers
Who’s the new Nassau?
The faint echoes of genocide
Olinda: the first jewel in the Portuguese crown
The tragedy of Olinda, still in theaters
Fighting for Simón Bolívar, and in love with the Dutch
Nassau sacked, but still a count
A lovely view of a bridge and palace
The long arms of colonial administration
Dom Pedro II, the guarantor of anti-Dutch sentiment
Before the city, a port
The darker future of Brazil’s non-white colonial leaders
Attempting to secure the slave trade
Maurice, and the first observatory in the Americas
The height of the Pineapple Mania was 14 meters
Fake news in Dutch Brazil
The creation myth of the Brazilian Army
Scorched earth
The heart of Mauritius
Itamaracá: an informal Dutch capital in Brazil
The not-quite five-pointed fort
The resilience of the Henrique Dias Musical Guild
A square and a newspaper
The Dutch break ground in Pernambuco
Brazilian school books on the Dutch invasion