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

Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World represents the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within the context

“[A] tour de force of global history...Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world

This book explores the perspective of individuals, families and groups of interest in their daily strive to survive an European pursuit of empire.

The political and economic rise of this small but influential community of New Christian bankers and merchants is analysed against the backdrop of its instituti