The West India Company seized the sugar coast of Pernambuco and, under Johan Maurits at Recife, built a brilliant but brief Atlantic colony of painters, mapmakers and engenhos.
Steadily rolled back by the Pernambucan revolt from 1645; the Dutch garrison at Recife surrendered on 26 January 1654, ending New Holland.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Dutch Brazil (New Holland) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1630 · 1637 · 1645.
A narrative history of Brazil covering the West India Company seizure of Pernambuco and New Holland under Johan Maurits.
A concise national history treating the Dutch sugar colony and its 1654 surrender (broad context).