Brill has published a new book on
political lobbying and decision-making in Dutch Brazil.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In Lobbying in Company,
Joris van den Tol argues that people made a difference in the Dutch West India
Company colony in Brazil (1630–1654). Through a combination of petitions,
personal relations, and public opinion, individuals were able to exercise
influence on the decision-making process regarding Dutch Brazil. His thorough
analysis of these different elements offers a new perspective on the Atlantic
and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century as well as a better
understanding of lobbying in the early modern period.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joris van den Tol (Ph.D., Leiden
2018) is a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Harvard’s History Department on a
NWO Rubicon fellowship. He has published on petitions in relation to the
colonies in Brazil, New Netherland, and Taiwan and on smuggling.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1 Lobbying for the Creation of
the WIC
1 The Dutch Republic
1.1 The Cities
1.2 Provincial States
1.3 States General
1.4 The Stadtholders
1.5 Conflicting Powersbr/>
2 The West India Company
2.1 Willem Usselincx
2.2 The Layout of the WIC
3 Brazil
4 Conclusion
2 Lobbying in Brazil
1 1624/1630–1636: Ad Hoc
Solutions
2 1637–1646: Consolidation and a
Prince in the Tropics
2.1 The Diet as a Colonial Tool
2.2 The Brazilian Diet of 1640
2.3 The 81 Petitions of August
1640
2.4 Petitions for Regulations
3 Religious Affairs
3.1 The Power of the Church
4 Slavery
4.1 Access to Institutions for
Non-European
5 The Possible Consequence of
Top-Down Decision Making
5.1 Johan Maurits’ Reaction
5.2 The Reactions from the
Council of Justice and the Ministers
6 Conclusion
3 Trading Regulations or Free Trade
1 The Opening Moves
2 Selecting the Playing Field
3 Making It Count
4 Making It Count Even More
5 The Role of the Amsterdam City
Council
6 Delaying a Decision
7 Lobbying to and from the Colony
8 Conclusion
4 Petitioning the Public Sphere
1 What Is the Public Sphere?
2 The Dutch Public Sphere
2.1 Pamphlets and Dutch Brazil
3 Petitions and Public Opinion
3.1 Printed Petitions
4 Multiple Signatures on
Petitions
4.1 Group Petitions to the
States General
5 Managing Information of the
Revolt in Brazil
6 Petitioning the Public Sphere
on Brazil
7 Petitioning the Public Sphere
on the Atlantic
7.1 Other Forms of Signatures
8 Conclusion
5 Personal Connections and Direct
Lobbying
1 Personal Connections and
Societal Capital
2 Appointing a New High
Government in Brazil
3 Background Issues
3.1 Peace Negotiations in
Münster
3.2 A Frisian Chamber in the WIC
4 Information Control
5 Personal Relations
6 Conclusion
6 The Last Hope, 1652–1654
1 The Second Battle of Guarapes
2 Why Was Brazil Lost?
3 The Delegates from Brazil
4 Requesting a Resolution from
the States General
5 A Delegation to Friesland
5.1 The Report from the
Friesland Commission
6 Accelerating the Admiralties
7 Seizing Momentum
8 Planning for the Future
9 It Is All about the Money
9.1 It Is about the People
10 The Loss of Brazil
11 Conclusion
7 Lobbying for Money in the
Aftermath of Dutch Brazil
1 Return to the Republic
2 Claiming Wages
3 Travel Pennies
4 Shared Features
5 The Printed Petition from the
Army
6 Conclusion
8 Making the Company Work
Appendix A – Free Trade Exports
from Brazil in 1637
Manuscript Sources
Secondary Literature and
Published Sources
Index
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