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Between Empires: Brazilian Sugar in the Early Atlantic Economy,1550-1630
This study of the wholesale trade in Brazilian sugar challenges previous imperial and mercantilist perspectives and presents the Atlantic economy in its earliest phases as an integrated, inter-imperial system not subject to monopolies and effective imperial regulation.
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The Dutch Moment
The author draws on a dazzling variety of archival and
printed sources... The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to
the field. ―Renaissance Quarterly
In The Dutch Moment , Wim Klooster
shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire
that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the
Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold
Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the
decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners,
largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many
settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or
the New World. The Dutch would not have been able to achieve
military victories without the native alliances they carefully
cultivated. Indeed, the Dutch Atlantic was quintessentially
interimperial, multinational, and multiracial. At the same time, it
was an empire entirely designed to benefit the United
Provinces.
The pivotal colony in the Dutch Atlantic was Brazil, half of
which was conquered by the Dutch West India Company. Its brief
lifespan notwithstanding, Dutch Brazil (1630-1654) had a lasting
impact on the Atlantic world. The scope of Dutch warfare in Brazil
is hard to overestimate-this was the largest interimperial conflict
of the seventeenth-century Atlantic. Brazil launched the Dutch into
the transatlantic slave trade, a business they soon dominated. At
the same time, Dutch Brazil paved the way for a Jewish life in
freedom in the Americas after the first American synagogues opened
their doors in Recife. In the end, the entire colony eventually
reverted to Portuguese rule, in part because Dutch soldiers,
plagued by perennial poverty, famine, and misery, refused to take
up arms. As they did elsewhere, the Dutch lost a crucial colony
because of the empire's systematic neglect of the very soldiers on
whom its defenses rested.
After the loss of Brazil and, ten years later, New Netherland,
the Dutch scaled back their political ambitions in the Atlantic
world. Their American colonies barely survived wars with England
and France. As the imperial dimension waned, the interimperial
dimension gained strength. Dutch commerce with residents of foreign
empires thrived in a process of constant adaptation to foreign
settlers' needs and mercantilist obstacles.
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Responsa in a Historical Context
A Winner of the 2024 Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award
This book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. This collection will acquaint the reader with Jews who, following their expulsion, settled in the Ottoman Empire, in Palestine under the Mamluks, in Amsterdam and in Brazil. The period of the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula was a tragic time in Jewish history, but the revitalization of the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish communities in new locales is testimony to the human spirit and determination.
The volume includes eight chapters, each built around one responsum from one of the great halakhic authorities of the time. Topics include excommunication in Amsterdam, ʻ
agunot , inheritance rights of a converso son, obligatory contracts and breach of agreement, heresy and humanist scholarship, informing on someone to the Venetian Inquisition, and more
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