Atlantic Diasporas

These authors provide a window onto a diverse and fascinating world that challenges a host of popular notions. Renaissance Quarterly This volume includes pieces by such scholars as Jonathan Israel and Daviken Studnick-Gizbert, who have made outstanding contributions to our knowledge of the international activities, and the social and mental worlds, of the Marrano mercantile community. New York Review of Books This volume offers an excellent rebuttal to those who think that either Jews or the Atlantic stand apart from nation and empire. -- David Hancock Journal of Interdisciplinary History A major contribution... Sophisticated analyses of culture and excellent archival research, integrating both with the burgeoning field of Atlantic Studies. -- David Graizbord American Jewish History Atlantic Diasporas will inform even experts in a diversity of fields. -- Jonathan Schorsch New West Indian Guide This volume is a very important contribution to our understanding of a very complex diaspora that defies simplistic generalizations. -- Ana Schaposchnik Journal of World History Refashioned the very concept of diaspora and made it into a viable model by which to examine the history of migration and ethnicity. -- Rachel Kranson Journal of American Ethnic History Atlantic Diasporas is well organized, fascinating, groundbreaking, and extremely useful both as a platform to promote further research and as an assigned text. -- Stanley Mirvis H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews

Richard L. Kagan is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University and the translator and editor, with Abigail Dyer, of Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics, also published by Johns Hopkins. Philip D. Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University and author of the award-winning book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry.

Preface Part I: Contexts Chapter 1. Jews and Crypto-Jews in the Atlantic World Systems, 1500-1800 Chapter 2. Jewish History in an Age of Atlanticism Part II: Mercantilism Chapter 3. Networks of Colonial Entrpreneurs: The Founders of the Jewish Settlements in Dutch America, 1650s and 1660s Chapter 4. Engligh Markets, Jewish Merchants, and Atlantic Endeavors: Jews and the Making of British Translantic Commerical Culture, 1650-1800 Chapter 5. La Nacin among the Nations: Portuguese and Other Maritime Trading Diasporas in the Atlantic, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries Chapter 6. Sephardic Merchants in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond: Toward a Comparative Historical Approach to Business Cooperation Part III: Identity and Religion Chapter 7. Jews and New Christians in Dutch Brazil, 1630-1654 Chapter 8. A Matriarchal Matter: Slavery, Conversion, and Upward Mobility in Suriname's Jewish Community Chapter 9. Catholics, Jews, and Muslims in Early Seventeenth-Century Guine Chapter 10. "These Indians Are Jews!" Lost Tribes, Crypto-Jews, and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Antonio de Montezion's Relacin of 1644 Epilogue Notes