Descript |
xxi, 567 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Jews of Dutch America / Jonathan I. Israel -- Jews in Suriname and Curaçao / Wim Klooster -- 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 -- Jewish moment and the two expansion systems in the Atlantic, 1580-1650 / Pieter Emmer -- Jews in British America / Jonathan D. Sarna. |
ISBN |
1571811532 (hbk.) |
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9781571811530 (hbk.) |
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1571814302 (pbk.) |
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9781571814302 (pbk.) |
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