The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 Contributor(s): Bernardini, Paolo (Editor), Fiering, Norman (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1571811532 ISBN-13: 9781571811530 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $170.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - History | Europe - General - History | Jewish - General |
Dewey: 980.004 |
LCCN: 99044924 |
Series: European Expansion and Global Interaction |
Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.20 lbs) 592 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bernardini, Paolo: - Paolo Bernardini was a Fellow of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and of the Royal Historical Society. Currently he is Resident Director of the Padova Program, Boston University. Fiering, Norman: -Norman Fiering is the author of two books that were awarded the Merle Curti Prize for Intellectual History by the Organization of American Historians and of numerous articles. Since 1983, he has been Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. |