TY - BOOK ID - 46261243 TI - Amsterdam's Sephardic merchants and the Atlantic sugar trade in the seventeenth century PY - 2019 SN - 3319970615 3319970607 9783319970615 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Europe-History-1492-. KW - World history. KW - Imperialism. KW - Judaism and culture. KW - History of Early Modern Europe. KW - World History, Global and Transnational History. KW - Imperialism and Colonialism. KW - Jewish Cultural Studies. KW - Culture and Judaism KW - Culture KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - Universal history KW - History KW - Europe—History—1492-. KW - Sugar trade KW - Sugar workers KW - Sephardim KW - Jews, Sephardic KW - Ladinos (Spanish Jews) KW - Sefardic Jews KW - Sephardi Jews KW - Sephardic Jews KW - Jews KW - Jews, Portuguese KW - Jews, Spanish KW - Sugar bounties KW - Sugar industry KW - Sweetener industry KW - Employees UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46261243 AB - 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. ER -