Full Description
Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World represents the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within the context of Atlantic History. From roughly 1500 to 1830, the Atlantic World was a tightly intertwined swathe of global powers that included Europe, Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean. How, when, and where do Jews figure in this important chapter of history? This book explores these questions and many others.
The essays of this volume foreground the connectivity between Jews and other population groups in the realms of empire, trade, and slavery, taking readers from the shores of Caribbean islands to various outposts of the Dutch, English, Spanish, and Portuguese empires.
Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World revolutionizes the study of Jews in early American history, forging connections and breaking down artificial academic divisions so as to start writing the history of an Atlantic world influenced strongly by the culture, economy, politics, religion, society, and sexual relations of Jewish people.
Contents
Introduction: The Revolutionary Potential of Atlantic Jewish History"
1. The U.S. and the Rest: Old and New Paradigms of Early American Jewish History
2. Atlantic Commerce and Pragmatic Tolerance: Portuguese Jewish Participation in the Spanish Navíos de Registro System in the Seventeenth Century
3. To Trade is to Thrive: The Sephardic Moment in Amsterdam's Atlanticand Caribbean Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century
4. Trading Violence: Four Jewish Soldiers BetweenAtlantic Empires (ca. 1600-1655)
5. Imperial Enterprise: The Franks Family Network, Commerce, and British Expansion
6. Declarations of Interdependence: Understanding the Entanglement of Jewish Rights and Liberties in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1740-1830
7. Jews and Free People of Color in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Case Study in Experiential and Ethnic Entanglement
8. Jewish Involvement in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Threat of Equality to the Jewish Way of Life
9. Sex with Slaves and the Business of Governance: The Case of Barbados
10. Connecting Jewish Community: An Anglophone Journal, Rev. Isaac Leeser, and a Jewish Atlantic World
