Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries: A Survey
Henryk Szlajfer, "Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries: A Survey "
English | ISBN: 9004686312 | 2023 | 356 pages | PDF | 23 MB
English | ISBN: 9004686312 | 2023 | 356 pages | PDF | 23 MB
In Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th–17th Centuries: A Survey, Henryk Szlajfer describes the ways New Christians and Jews contributed to the rise of the Atlantic economy by developing non-corporate world-wide trade networks, their involvement in the New World sugar plantations, and the role they played until mid-17th century in the slave trade. He argues that persecutions of New Christians by the Inquisition were a critical variable in explaining the destruction of this unique example of early modern entrepreneurship.
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