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4. Nirenberg, Communities of Violence, pp. 23, 25-26, 38-39.
5. Elliott, Imperial Spain, 1469-1716, pp. 9, 95; Kedourie, Spain and the Jews, pp. 8, 10, 33-35, 49, 61, 68-69; Nirenberg, Communities of Violence, pp. 27-29.
6. MacKay, “The Jews in Spain During the Middle Ages,” pp. 35-36, 48; Jonathan Israel, “The Sephardim in the Netherlands,” in Spain and the Jews, pp. 189-90; Nirenberg, Communities of Violence, pp. 174-75.
7. Henry Kamen, Spain's Road to Empire: The Making of a World Power, 1492-1763 (London: Allen Lane, 2002), pp. 22, 181; Kamen, “The Expulsion,” pp. 75, 82, 85; Haim Beinart, “The Conversos and Their Fate,” in Spain and the Jews, pp. 106, 108, 114, 142.
8. Elliott, Imperial Spain, 1469-1716, pp. 1,15,19-23; Julius Klein, TheMesta: A Study in Spanish Economic History, 1273-1836 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1920), p. 38; Immanuel Wallerstein, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, vol. 1 of The Modern World-System (San Diego: Academic Press, 1980), pp. 192-93 and 193n.l36 (citations omitted); John Elliott, “The Decline of Spain,” Past & Present (Nov. 1961), pp. 52, 54-55, 69-70; Ruth Pike, “The Genoese in Seville and the Opening of the New World,” The Journal of Economic History, vol. 22, no. 3 (1962), pp. 355, 357, 359.
9. Kamen, Spain's Road to Empire, pp. 69-70, 88-89; John Lynch, “Spain After the Expulsion,” in Spain and the Jews, pp. 147-48, 151; Wallerstein, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy, pp. 183,185,195.
10. Kamen, “The Expulsion,” p. 84; Lynch, “Spain After the Expulsion,” pp. 140, 14415, 148-53; Wallerstein, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy, pp. 194-96.
11. Kedourie, Spain and the Jews, pp. 16, 149-52; James MacDonald, A Free Nation Deep in Debt (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), pp. 133-35; Wallerstein, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy, pp. 186-87, 195, 204-5. On the expulsion of the Jesuits, see Bernard Moses, Spain's Declining Power in South America, 1730-1806 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1919), pp. 104-7.
12. Max Boot, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (New York: Gotham Books, 2006), pp. 30-45; MacDonald, A Free Nation Deep in Debt, pp. 132-34; Wallerstein, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy, pp. 192-97.
13. The nineteenth-century Spanish writer was Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, who is quoted in Lynch, “Spain After the Expulsion,” pp. 159-60.
14. Kamen, “The Expulsion,” pp. 75, 84; Lynch, “Spain After the Expulsion,” p. 145.
15. Lynch, “Spain After the Expulsion,” p. 140. On the general intolerance of seventeenth-century Europe, see Wiebe Bergsma, “Church, State, and People,” in Karel Davids and Jan Lucassen, eds., A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch Republic in European Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 204-13.
16. Wallerstein, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy, pp. 197-98.
SIX: THE DUTCH WORLD EMPIRE: DIAMONDS, DAMASK, AND EVERY “MONGREL SECT IN CHRISTENDOM’
Epigraphs: The Dutch author was Melchior Fokkens, quoted in Simon Schama's wonderful book The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987), p. 300. The quote from Peter Mundy can be found in Richard Carnac Temple, ed., The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667, vol. 4 (London: Cambridge University Press, 1925), p. 68.
1. On civet cats and the civet trade, see Jonathan I. Israel, Empires and Entrepots: The Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy and the Jews, 1585-1713 (London: Hambledon Press, 1990), pp. 357, 427, 435-36; William Jackson, “The Story