Introduction : what persisted and what persists of Dutch Brazil : the legacy of an interlude / Michiel van groesen, University of Amsterdam -- The geopolitical impact of Dutch Brazil on the Western Hemisphere / Wim Klooster, Clark University -- Looking for a new Brazil : crisis and rebirth in the Atlantic world after the fall of Pernambuco / Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University -- From Dutch allies to Portuguese vassals : indigenous peoples in the aftermath of Dutch Brazil / Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg -- From Brazil to West Africa : Dutch-Portuguese rivalry, gold-smuggling, and African politics in the Bight of Benin / Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University -- Global connections : Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen's collection of curiosities / Mariana Françozo, Leiden University -- A less Christian Atlantic : the legacy of Dutch tolerance in Brazil / Evan Haefeli, Columbia University -- How Dutch Brazil affects your emotions : the Antwerp Jesuit Cornelius Hazart on early colonial Brazil / Johan Verberckmoes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Beyond Brazilian nature : the editorial itineraries of Marcgraf and Piso's Historia naturalis brasiliae / Neil Safier, John Carter Brown Library, Providence -- Dutch Brazil and the making of free trade ideology / Arthur Weststeijn, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome -- Heroic memories : admirals of Dutch Brazil in the rise of Dutch national consciousness / Michiel van Groesen, University of Amsterdam -- Who owns Frans Post? : collecting Frans Post's Brazilian landscapes / Rebecca Parker Brienen, Oklahoma State University -- Visual impact : the long legacy of the artists of Dutch Brazil / Julie Berger Hochstrasser, University of Iowa -- Epilogue : mythologies of Dutch Brazil / Joan-Pau Rubiés, Icrea Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona