Portuguese Jews and Dutch Spaniards
Cultural fluidity and economic pragmatism in the early modern Caribbean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12413799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oren Okhovat (University of Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74-96 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Colonial Latin American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-9164 • E-ISSN: 1466-1802 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10609164.2023.2170560 |
| OpenAlex | W4360999703 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
Traditional studies of the seventeenth-century Atlantic world often describe it in terms of discreet imperial territories governed by distinct imperial systems. This study joins recent scholarship that has observed how the Atlantic and, more specifically, the Caribbean remained an entangled space rooted in the regional trade of both basic and lucrative commodities. This paper examines how Portuguese Jewish merchants in Curaçao helped facilitate mutually beneficial economic relationships between Spanish and Dutch ports that functioned independently of grander imperial designs. These relationships reveal that Portuguese Jewish, Spanish Catholic, and Dutch Protestant actors in the Caribbean could be flexible in their attitudes towards religious ‘others.’ The transfer of both goods and people (free and enslaved) across imperial borders in the Caribbean thus relied on a culture of pragmatic tolerance (but not necessarily acceptance) adopted by such diverse actors as Spanish and Dutch governors,asiento factors, and local and foreign merchants
Archaeology · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Judaism · Political economy · Political science · Portuguese · Protestantism · Scholarship · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Philosophy
The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680
Between Empires
The Slave Trade to Latin America
Wayward New Christians and Stubborn New Jews
The Misadventures of Luis Méndez Chávez and the Origins of the Sephardic Colonization Movement
Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600–1800
Experiential Caribbean
Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Creolization and Contraband
The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1815
Souls in Dispute
Les Marranes
The Same but Different? Inter-cultural trade and the Sephardim, 1595–1640
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
Plural identities
Fragile fortunes
Chasing the Avença
A Nation upon the Ocean Sea
From Capture to Sale
Illicit Riches
Luso-Spanish Relations in Hapsburg Brazil, 1580–1640
Men of the Nation
Dying in the Law of Moses, Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World
Institutional choice in the governance of the early Atlantic sugar trade
Centering Spanish Jamaica
Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy
Power, Corruption, and Commerce
War and Government in Habsburg Spain, 1560-1620
The Rise of Portobelo and the Transformation of the Spanish American Slave Trade, 1640s-1730s
Portuguese Bankers at the Court of Spain, 1626-1650
All Can Be Saved
History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |