The Jews and the expansion of Europe to the west, 1450 to 1800. (2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering.
• Editors: Bernardini, Paolo, 1963-; Fiering, Norman
• Contents: A milder colonization : Jewish expansion to the New World, and the New World in the Jewish consciousness of the early modern era / Paolo Bernardini -- Biblical history and the Americas : the legend of Solomon's Ophir, 1492-1591 / James Romm -- Knowledge of newly discovered lands among Jewish communities of Europe (from 1492 to the Thirty Years' War) / Noah J. Efron -- Jewish scientists and the origin of modern navigation / Patricia Seed -- The hope of the Netherlands : Menasseh ben Israel and the Dutch idea of America / Benjamin Schmidt -- Israel in America : the wanderings of the lost ten tribes from Mikveigh Yisrael to Timothy McVeigh / David S. Katz -- New Christian, Marrano, Jew / Robert Rowland -- Marrano religiosity in Hispanic America in the seventeenth century / Nathan Wachtel -- Crypto-Jews and the Mexican Holy Office in the seventeenth century / Solange Alberro -- The participation of new Christians and Crypto-Jews in the conquest, colonization, and trade of Spanish America, 1521-1660 / Eva Alexandra Uchmany -- Crypto-Jews and new Christians in colonial Peru and Chile / Günter Böhm -- Marranos and the Inquisition : on the Gold Route in Minas Gerais, Brazil / Anita Novinsky -- Outcasts from the kingdom : the Inquisition and the banishment of new Christians to Brazil / Geraldo Pieroni -- The Portuguese Jewish nation of Saint-Esprit-lès-Bayonne : the American dimension / Gérard Nahon -- Atlantic trade and Sephardim merchants in eighteenth-century France : the case of Bordeaux / Silvia Marzagalli -- Jewish settlements in the French colonies in the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Cayenne) and the "Black code" / Mordechai Arbell -- New Christians/"new whites" : Sephardic Jews, free people of color, and citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1789 / John D. Garrigus -- The Jews of Dutch America / Jonathan I. Israel -- The Jews in Suriname and Curaçao / Wim Klooster -- An Atlantic perspective on the Jewish struggle for rights and opportunities in Brazil, New Netherland, and New York / James Homer Williams -- Antecedents and remnants of Jodensavanne : the synagogues and cemeteries of the first permanent plantation settlement of New World Jews / Rachel Frankel -- Jews and new Christians in the Atlantic slave trade / Seymour Drescher -- New Christians in the sugar trade, 1550-1750 : two centuries of development of the Atlantic economy / James C. Boyajian -- New Christians and Jews as sugar cultivators and traders in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1450-1800 / Ernst Pijning -- The Jewish moment and the two expansion systems in the Atlantic, 1580-1650 / Pieter Emmer -- The Jews in British America / Jonathan D. Sarna.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 567 pages)
• Subjects: 980/.004924; Jews -- Latin America -- History; Jews -- North America -- History; Jews -- Migrations; Judios -- Migraciones; Jews -- Latin America -- History; Jews -- North America -- History; Europe -- Emigration and immigration; Jews -- Migrations; Emigration and immigration; Jews; Expansie (macht); Ontdekkingsreizen; Joden; Expansion; Einwanderung; Juifs -- Amérique latine -- Histoire; Juifs -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire; Juifs -- Migrations; HISTORY -- Latin America -- General; HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America; Emigration and immigration; Jews; Jews -- Migrations; Expansie (macht); Ontdekkingsreizen; Joden; Expansion; Einwanderung; Europe -- Emigration and immigration; Latin America -- Emigration and immigration; North America -- Emigration and immigration; Europe -- Émigration et immigration; Amérique latine -- Émigration et immigration; Amérique du Nord -- Emigration et immigration; Europe; Latin America; North America; Europa; Juden; Amerika; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1782389768; 9781782389767
• Related ISBNs: 1571811532; 9781571811530; 1571814302; 9781571814302
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 530-531) and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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