Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries: : : A Survey / / Henryk Szlajfer.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; volume 269
• VerfasserIn: Szlajfer, Henryk,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 269.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 280 pages).

"Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian 'great Jewish merchants.' However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the world group sui generis, were equally crucial. Their religious identities were fluid, but at the same time they and the 'new Jews' from Amsterdam formed a part of economic modernity epitomized by the rebellious Netherlands and the developing Atlantic economy. At the height of their influence they played a pivotal, albeit controversial, role in the rising slave trade. The disappearance of New Christians in Latin America had to be contextualised with inquisitorial persecutions and growing competition in mind."--Publisher description.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Maps -- Chapter 1 Terminology as Differentiation -- Chapter 2 'The Portuguese' -- Chapter 3 Sombart's Fantasies: Jews, the Netherlands, and the Colonisation of the New World -- Chapter 4 More about the New Christians -- Chapter 5 The Iberian Atlantic: an Overview -- Chapter 6 Back to Long-Distance Trade: Networks -- Chapter 7 Brazilian Sugar and the New Christians: Networks and Production -- Chapter 8 Brazilian Sugar and the New Christians: Trade -- Chapter 9 The First Slaves: Context -- Chapter 10 Portuguese asientos, Time of the New Christians -- Chapter 11 In Spanish America: from Buenos Aires to the Stake -- Conclusion: tempo dos flamengos - the Amsterdam Jews in the Nieuw-Holland -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.