The Jews and the expansion of Europe to the west, 1450 to 1800
Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World.
History
xv, 567 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9781571811530, 9781571814302, 1571811532, 1571814302
42290494
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