The Jews And The Expansion Of Europe To The West, 1450-1800 Book

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	Preface
	A Milder Colonization: Jewish Expansion to the New World, and the New World in the Jewish Consciousness of the Early Modern Era	1
I	The Old New World: Ideas and Representations of America in European and Jewish Consciousness and Intellectual History
1	Biblical History and the Americas: The Legend of Solomon's Ophir, 1492-1591	27
2	Knowledge of Newly Discovered Lands among Jewish Communities of Europe (from 1492 to the Thirty Years' War)	47
3	Jewish Scientists and the Origin of Modern Navigation	73
4	The Hope of the Netherlands: Menasseh ben Israel and the Dutch Idea of America	86
5	Israel in America: The Wanderings of the Lost Ten Tribes from Mikveigh Yisrael to Timothy McVeigh	107
II	Identity at Stake: Concealing, Preserving, and Reshaping Judaism among the Conversos and Marranos of Spanish America
6	New Christian, Marrano, Jew	125
7	Marrano Religiosity in Hispanic America in the Seventeenth Century	149
8	Crypto-Jews and the Mexican Holy Office in the Seventeenth Century	172
9	The Participation of New Christians and Crypto-Jews in the Conquest, Colonization, and Trade of Spanish America, 1521-1660	186
10	Crypto-Jews and New Christians in Colonial Peru and Chile	203
III	The Luso-Brazilian Experience: Jews in Portuguese Latin America
11	Marranos and the Inquisition: On the Gold Route in Minas Gerais, Brazil	215
12	Outcasts from the Kingdom: The Inquisition and the Banishment of New Christians to Brazil	242
IV	From Toleration to Expulsion: Identity, Trade, and Struggle for Survival in France and Caribbean French America
13	The Portuguese Jewish Nation of Saint-Esprit-les-Bayonne: The American Dimension	255
14	Atlantic Trade and Sephardim Merchants in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of Bordeaux	268
15	Jewish Settlements in the French Colonies in the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Cayenne) and the "Black Code"	287
16	New Christians/"New Whites": Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1789	314
V	Blossoming in Another World: The Jews and the Jewish Communities in Dutch America
17	The Jews of Dutch America	335
18	The Jews in Suriname and Curacao	350
19	An Atlantic Perspective on the Jewish Struggle for Rights and Opportunities in Brazil, New Netherland, and New York	369
20	Antecedents and Remnants of Jodensavanne: The Synagogues and Cemeteries of the First Permanent Plantation Settlement of New World Jews	394
VI	"The Brokers of the World": American Jews, New Christians, and International Trade
21	Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade	439
22	New Christians and Jews in the Sugar Trade, 1550-1750: Two Centuries of Development of the Atlantic Economy	471
23	New Christians as Sugar Cultivators and Traders in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1450-1800	485
24	The Jewish Moment and the Two Expansion Systems in the Atlantic, 1580-1650	501
VII	The Jews in Colonial British America
25	The Jews in British America	519
	Notes on Contributors	532
	Name Index	537
	Place Index	554
	Subject Index	561