TY - BOOK ID - 107938498 TI - Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century PY - 2019 SN - 9783319970615 3319970615 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Jewish religion KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - World history KW - History KW - History of Europe KW - imperialisme KW - wereldgeschiedenis KW - nieuwste tijd KW - suiker KW - cultuur KW - geschiedenis KW - Jodendom KW - Europese geschiedenis KW - nieuwe tijd KW - kolonialisme KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - Amsterdam KW - Europe KW - Brazil 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 - 1492-. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:107938498 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 -