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

Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9783319970615
ISBN-13 : 3319970615
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Book Synopsis Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century by : Yda Schreuder

Download or read book Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century written by Yda Schreuder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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