Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries

A Survey
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68631-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 269, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szlajfer, Henryk

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Über Autor(innen)

Henryk Szlajfer is Professor Emeritus at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University. He has published on Latin American economic history, including Economic Nationalism and Globalization: Lessons from Latin America and Central Europe (Brill, 2012). He also co-edited Western Europe, Eastern Europe and World Development 13th–18th Centuries: Collection of Essays of Marian Malowist (Brill, 2010).