Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index
Mauritsstad-Recife in seventeenth-century Brazil -- Amsterdam and the South Atlantic -- The Jewish-Portuguese nation in the colony of Suriname -- The Maroon and the Creole as narrative tropes -- Manuel Piar and the struggle for independence in Latin America -- Popular rhythms and political voices in Curaçao -- New landscapes, Creole belonging -- The South Atlantic revisited