Connected Empires, Connected News: A Comparison between Early Modern Spanish and Dutch news books on Brazil’s conquest
This paper analyzes the information that was disseminated in the Netherlands and Spain - and other territories connected to the latter such as Portugal and Flanders under Habsburg rule - about the taking by the Dutch of the city of San Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, and his subsequent recovery by a Sp...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/165446 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/165446 https://doi.org/0.1080/13688804.2020.1843422 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Early Modern Journalism History of Journalism Spain Holland XVIIth Century Brazil |
| Sumario: | This paper analyzes the information that was disseminated in the Netherlands and Spain - and other territories connected to the latter such as Portugal and Flanders under Habsburg rule - about the taking by the Dutch of the city of San Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, and his subsequent recovery by a Spanish-Portuguese expedition (1624-1625). Despite the different communicative structures, these national journalisms shared professional strategies to inform about the conflicts that occurred in the distant Brazilian lands. Given the difficulty of informing promptly and truthfully, the discourse of the Dutch and Spanish newspapers about their colonies alternates between the information explosion and silence, depending on the alternation between victories and defeats in American territory. News was as connected as were the empires that controlled vast territories in Europe and America, despite the ideological and religious differences of the era. |
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