Dealing with Defeat: Dutch Brazil (1624) and English Jamaica (1655) in Newspapers from the Habsburg Netherlands

Covering defeat or disaster in print required considerable journalistic finesse in the Southern Netherlandish news market, since the primary role of privileged courantiers in the Habsburg empire was to provide accounts of royal successes. This article investigates the ways in which the Antwerp print...

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Main Author: Tiffany Bousard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2018-09-01
Series:Early Modern Low Countries
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Online Access:https://test.openjournals.nl/emlc/article/view/7187