Atlantic diasporas
Subtitle: Jews, conversos, and crypto-Jews in the age of mercantilism, 1500-1800
By: edited by Richard L. Kagan and Philip D. Morgan.
Contributors: Kagan, Richard L., 1943-; Morgan, Philip D., 1949-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780801890345; 9780801890352
Subjects: Sephardim -- History -- Congresses; Marranos -- History -- Congresses; Jews -- History -- Congresses; Economic history -- 1600-1750 -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This wide-ranging narrative explores the role that Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews played in settling and building the Atlantic world between 1500 and 1800. Through the interwoven themes of markets, politics, religion, culture, and identity, the essays here demonstrate that the world of Atlantic Jewry, most often typified by Port Jews involved in mercantile pursuits, was more complex than commonly depicted. The first section discusses the diaspora in relation to maritime systems, commerce, and culture on the Atlantic and includes an overview of Jewish history on both sides of the ocean. The second section provides an in-depth look at Jewish mercantilism, from settlements in Dutch America to involvement in building British, Portuguese, and other trading cultures to the dispersal of Sephardic merchants. In the third section, the chapter authors assess the roles of identity and religion in settling the Atlantic, looking closely at religious conversion; slavery; relationships among Jews, Christians, and Muslims; and the legacy of the lost tribes of Israel. A concluding commentary elucidates the fluidity of identity and boundaries in the formation of the Atlantic world. Featuring chapters by Jonathan Israel, Natalie Zemon Davis, Aviva Ben-Ur, Holly Snyder, and other prominent Jewish historians, this collection opens new avenues of inquiry into the Jewish diaspora and integrates Jewish trade and settlements into the broader narrative of Atlantic exploration."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Jews, crypto-Jews and the maritime, commercial and cultural systems of the Atlantic world, 1500-1800 / Jonathan Israel; title: A Jewish Atlantic?: Jewish history in an age of Atlanticism / Adam Sutcliffe; title: Networks of colonial entrepreneurs: the founders of the Jewish settlements in Dutch America, 1650s and 1660s / Wim Klooster; title: English markets, Jewish merchants, and Atlantic endeavors: Jews and the making of British transatlantic commercial culture, 1650-1800 / Holly Snyder; title: La Nación amongst the nations: Portuguese, and other maritime trading diasporas in the Atlantic, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert; title: Sephardic merchants in the early modern Atlantic and beyond: toward a comparative historical approach to business cooperation / Francesca Trivellato; title: Jews and new Christians in Dutch Northeastern Brazil 1630-1654 / Bruno Feitler; title: A matriarchal matter: slavery, conversion, and upward mobility in Suriname's Jewish community / Aviva Ben-Ur; title: Catholics, Jews and Muslims in early seventeenth-century Guiné / Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta; title: These Indians are Jews!: Lost tribes, crypto-Jews, and Jewish self-fashioning / Ronnie Perelis.