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Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America : a genealogical history / Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates

Hirschman, Elizabeth Caldwell, 1949- ; Yates, Donald N.

Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co Inc, 2012

VI, 285 S. : Ill.

Englisch

Mapmakers, privateers, and promoters -- Sephardim in the new world -- Virginia: first-and not so English-colony -- Massachusetts: pilgrims, Puritans, Jews, and Moors -- New York colony: Dutch, British, and Jewish -- Pennsylvania: Quakers and other Friends -- Maryland: Catholic in her tastes -- Huguenot South Carolina -- Georgia, the last colony -- Beacon of Freemasonry: Elias Ashmole, John Skene and early American lodges.

978-0-7864-6462-3

2011048960

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OCoLC: 808629134     

E184.3512

305.800973     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 74.80 (Demographie) <Geographie> ; 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel)

*USA / Oststaaten ; USA / Südoststaaten ; Juden ; Muslim ; Einwanderung ; Geschichte 1585-1775     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jews -- United States -- History -- 17th century ; Jews -- United States -- History -- 18th century ; Muslims -- United States -- History -- 17th century ; Muslims -- United States -- History -- 18th century ; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 ; United States -- Ethnic relations

USA Oststaaten ; USA Südoststaaten ; Juden ; Muslim ; Einwanderung ; Geschichte 1585-1775

"From historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA testing, genealogies, and settler lists, and the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent positions in all of the original colonies, this work looks freshly at the early American experience, postulating that many initial US colonists were of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry" --Provided by publisher