Strangers within: the rise and fall of the New Christian trading elite
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| Zusammenfassung: | No detailed description available for "Strangers Within". Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps and Genealogies -- Notes on Individuals and Locations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Object and Argument -- 2. Conceptual Framework -- 3. Semantics -- 4. Method -- 5. Scope -- 6. Historiography -- Part I: Transitions (1490s-1540s) -- Chapter 1: Background -- 1. Jewish Elite -- 2. New Christian Elite -- 3. Expulsions -- 4. Prosecution -- Chapter 2: Continuities -- 1. João Rodrigues Mascarenhas -- 2. Loronha, Pimentel, Tristão, and Negro -- 3. Abravanel, Bixorda, Paz, and Mendes -- 4. In Castile and Beyond -- Chapter 3: Disruptions -- 1. Division -- 2. David Reubeni -- 3. The Mendes/Nasi -- 4. The Henriques/Nunes -- Chapter 4: Creativity -- 1. Power Struggle -- 2. Arguments -- 3. Spiritual Search -- 4. Art and Literature -- Conclusions to Part I -- Part II: Expansion (1550s-1600s) -- Chapter 5: Networks -- 1. North Africa -- 2. Simón Ruiz's Financial Web -- Chapter 6: Migration -- 1. Eastern Mediterranean and Asia -- 2. Europe -- 3. Africa and the Americas -- Chapter 7: Property -- 1. Crasto do Rio -- 2. Nunes/Henriques -- 3. Caldeira -- 4. Fonseca -- 5. Ximenes -- Chapter 8: Values -- 1. Merchant Culture -- 2. Innovation -- 3. Blood Purity -- 4. General Pardon -- Conclusions to Part II -- Part III: Resistance (1600s-1640s) -- Chapter 9: Conflict -- 1. Reaction -- 2. Radicalisation -- 3. Defence -- 4. Exacerbation -- 5. Appeasement -- Chapter 10: Politics -- 1. Trials -- 2. Debate -- 3. Revolt and Naturalisation -- 4. Repression -- Chapter 11: Business -- 1. Asia -- 2. Seville and the Slave Trade -- 3. Spanish America -- 4. Brazil -- 5. Madrid -- 6. Lisbon -- 7. Europe -- Chapter 12: Identities -- 1. Religion -- 2. States -- 3. Literature, Politics, Art -- Conclusions to Part III -- Part IV: Decline (1650s-1770s) -- Chapter 13: Persecution -- 1. Castile -- 2. Portugal -- 3. Italy. "The New Christians, largely former Jews and Muslims who were forced to convert to Christianity in the 16th and 17th centuries, were both a persecuted group as well as an international elite, and their story, argues Francisco Bethencourt, offers a fascinating and indispensable veiw into the period and the making of a global economy. In what is intended to be an authoritative and innovative book, the author will recount how the New Christians were a major force in structuring the Atlantic economy and reconstruct their involvement in trading system which ran from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Their hybrid religious allegiances, situated as they were primarilybetween Judaism and Christianity, provide a unique case of cosmopolitanism in various parts of the world. New Christian business practices, forms of organisation and codes of behaviour linked intercontinental networks to local agencies. Their ability to resist religious persecution implied alliances at the highest levels of the Catholic Church and the Iberian monarchies. This book will provide entirely new perspectives for our understanding of cosmopolitanism, religious allegiances, political alliances and business history. The New Christian trading elite has been studied in a fragmentary way, compartmentalised in time and space; but it has never been the subject of comprehensive research over the long term, from the forced conversion of the Jews in Portugal in 1497 to the abolition of the distinction between New Christians and Old Christians in Portugal in 1773, spanning connections between Europe, Africa, Asia and the New World"-- |
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| Physische Details: | 1 online resource (625 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-25680-1 |
