Amsterdam's Sephardic merchants and the Atlantic sugar trade in the seventeenth century / / by Yda Schreuder

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483963603321
• Autore: Schreuder Yda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-319-97061-5; 9783319970615
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 940.903
• Soggetti: Sugar trade - Netherlands - Amsterdam - History - 17th century; Sugar workers - Netherlands - Amsterdam - History - 17th century; Sephardim - Netherlands - Amsterdam; World history; Imperialism; Judaism and culture; History of Early Modern Europe; World History, Global and Transnational History; Imperialism and Colonialism; Jewish Cultural Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.