Preface to the third edition
Preface to the first edition
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Exodus from the West
2 Turning-Point (1570-1600)
3 Consolidation (1600-1620)
4 Jewish Culture (1550-1650)
5 The Thirty Years War
6 The High Point (I): The 'Court Jews' (1650-1713)
7 The High Point (II): Jewish Society (1650-1713)
8 The High Point (III): 'A Republic Apart'
9 The High Point (IV): Spiritual Crisis (1650-1713)
10 Decline and Renewal (1713-1750)
11 Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary printed sources
Secondary works
Index
Jonathan I. Israel is Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, and was formerly Professor of Dutch History and Institutions at the University of London. He is the author of The Dutch Republic and the Hispanic World, 1606–1661 (1986), Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585–1740 (1989), Empires and Entrepots: The Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy, and the Jews, 1585–1713 (1990), The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477–1806 (1995), Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries, and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585–1713 (1997), Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750, and Diasporas within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews, and the World Maritime Empires, 1540–1740 (2002), and editor of The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its World Impact (1991). He has held visiting professorships and research fellowships in the Netherlands and France, and at the University of California at Los Angeles, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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