Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century

Yda Schreuder (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVI, 287 Seiten

2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783030072957 (ISBN)

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This book surveys the role of Amsterdam's Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the "Portuguese Nation," conducting trade from the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil. Examining the "Myth of the Dutch," the "Sephardic Moment," and the impact of the British Navigation Acts, Yda Schreuder focuses attention on Barbados and Jamaica and demonstrates how Amsterdam remained Europe's primary sugar refining center through most of the seventeenth century and how Sephardic merchants played a significant role in sustaining the sugar trade.

Yda Schreuder is Professor Emerita of Geography at the University of Delaware and Research Associate at the Hagley Museum and Library, USA.

1. The Atlantic Sugar Trade: Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants in the Seventeenth Century.- 2. The Development of the Sephardic Jewish Sugar Trade Network.- 3. The British Caribbean World: Barbados.- 4. Amsterdam's Dutch and Sephardic Merchants in the Atlantic Supply Trade and the Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century.- 5. The Mission of Menasseh Ben Israel and Cromwell's Western Design.- 6. Sephardic Merchants and the Second Barbados: Jamaica.- 7. The Atlantic Sugar Trade at the End of the Seventeenth Century.

"This book is clearly a work of love. ... It is a well-written, well-documented overview of trade, trade networks, and the intersection of geopolitics during a dynamic century during which the foundations of empire were being laid. ... this volume is a very good overview of the different strands at play during this formative time in European colonialism." (Jessica Vance Roitman, Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 47 (1), 2021)

“This book is clearly a work of love. … It is a well-written, well-documented overview of trade, trade networks, and the intersection of geopolitics during a dynamic century during which the foundations of empire were being laid. … this volume is a very good overview of the different strands at play during this formative time in European colonialism.” (Jessica Vance Roitman, Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 47 (1), 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum	28.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 287 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Amsterdam sugar market • Anglo-Dutch Wars in Barbados • British Caribbean • British Trade and Navigation Acts • Cromwell • Dutch colonial trade • Historical Geography • history of the Atlantic Sugar Trade • Jewish Diaspora • Jewish trans-Atlantic trade network • Menasseh Ben Israel • Navigation Acts • Portuguese Jewish Merchants • Sephardic Jewish Sugar Trade Network • Sephardic Jews • Sephardic merchant community in Amsterdam and Barb • Sephardic merchant community in Amsterdam and Barbados • sugar revolution • The Trade Triangle
ISBN-13	9783030072957 / 9783030072957
Zustand	Neuware