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

• Main Author: Schreuder, Yda (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; World history.; Imperialism.; Judaism and culture.; History of Early Modern Europe.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Jewish Cultural Studies.

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 "Portug...