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

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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.
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.
Offers a comprehensive synthesis of the Atlantic sugar trade network as it developed and expanded in the seventeenth century Examines the unique role of the Sephardic merchant community in the Atlantic world Appeals to scholars of the Dutch Golden Age, Atlantic studies, Jewish studies, and historical geography

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Yda Schreuder

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history of the Atlantic Sugar Trade The Trade Triangle Sephardic merchant community in Amsterdam and Barbados historical geography Sephardic Jewish Sugar Trade Network Dutch colonial trade Portuguese Jewish Merchants British Trade and Navigation Acts Anglo-Dutch Wars in Barbados Menasseh Ben Israel Jewish Diaspora Jewish trans-Atlantic trade network British Caribbean Sugar Revolution Amsterdam sugar market

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“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)
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