LEADER 04089cam 2200577 i 4500001 on1381443196 003 OCoLC 005 20240430153644.0 008 230502s2024 njuab b 001 0 eng 010 2023018699 020 9780691209913 020 069120991X |qhardcover 020 |z9780691256801 |qelectronic book 035 (Sirsi) o1381443196 035 (OCoLC)1381443196 040 LBSOR |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 e-po---e-sp--- 050 00 DS135.S7 |bB52 2024 082 00 946/.004924009031 |223/eng/20230630 100 1 Bethencourt, Francisco, |eauthor. |=^A722948 245 10 Strangers within : |bthe rise and fall of the New Christian trading elite / |cFrancisco Bethencourt. 246 30 Rise and fall of the New Christian trading elite 264 1 Princeton, New Jersey : |bPrinceton University Press, |c[2024] 300 xvii, 602 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Background -- Continuities -- Disruptions -- Creativity -- Networks -- Migration -- Property -- Values -- Conflict -- Politics -- Business -- Identities -- Persecution -- Suspension -- Breakdown -- Immersion. 520 "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"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Crypto-Jews |zIberian Peninsula |xEconomic conditions. |=^A63637 650 0 Crypto-Jews |xCommerce |zIberian Peninsula. |=^A964644 650 0 Jewish merchants |xSocial conditions. |=^A827197 650 0 Religion |xEconomic aspects. |=^A138034 650 0 Commerce |xHistory. |=^A32073 650 0 Economic history |y16th century. |=^A54069 650 0 Economic history |y1600-1750. |=^A63428 650 7 Commerce. |2fast 650 7 Economic history. |2fast 650 7 Religion |xEconomic aspects. |2fast 651 7 Europe |zIberian Peninsula. |2fast |?UNAUTHORIZED 648 7 1500-1750 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast 776 08 |iOnline version:Bethencourt, Francisco. |tStrangers within |dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, [2024] |z9780691256801 |w(DLC) 2023018700 949 Order on Demand |wASIS |hJOYNER219 960 |o1 |s45.00 |uJHIS |zUSD 961 |fDMD |m138099 596 1 998 6339705