Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800

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. This volume is the first interdisciplinary, comprehensive treatment of the subject in a comparative perspective, with particular emphasis on Latin America, the Caribbean, and the European intellectual and economic connections, but not without reference also to the small Jewish settlements in North America in the colonial era, which are integral to the story.Bernardini, Paolo is the author of 'Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800' with ISBN 9781571811530 and ISBN 1571811532.