Papers presented at the first Lavy Colloquium "Atlantic Jewry in an Age of Mercantilism" on March 25-26, 2005 at the Homewood Campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Includes bibliographic references (pages 219-293) and index.
Contents:
Jews and crypto-Jews in the Atlantic world systems, 1500-1800 / Jonathan Israel -- Jewish history in an age of Atlanticism / Adam Sutcliffe -- Networks of colonial entrepreneurs: the founders of the Jewish settlements in Dutch America, 1650s and 1660s / Wim Klooster -- English markets, Jewish merchants, and Atlantic endeavors: Jews and the making of British transatlantic commercial culture, 1650-1800 / Holly Snyder -- La Nación amongst the nations: Portuguese, and other maritime trading diasporas in the Atlantic, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert -- Sephardic merchants in the early modern Atlantic and beyond: toward a comparative historical approach to business cooperation / Francesca Trivellato -- Jews and new Christians in Dutch Brazil 1630-1654 / Bruno Feitler -- A matriarchal matter: slavery, conversion, and upward mobility in Suriname's Jewish community / Aviva Ben-Ur -- Catholics, Jews and Muslims in early seventeenth-century Guiné / Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta-- These Indians are Jews!: Lost tribes, crypto-Jews, and Jewish self-fashioning in Antonio de Montezino's Relación of 1644 / Ronnie Perelis.
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