Settler-refugees: Susanne Lachenicht, ‘Refugee “nations” and Empire-Building in the Early Modern Period’, Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 2019 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler-refugees: Susanne Lachenicht, ‘Refugee “nations” and Empire-Building in the Early Modern Period’, Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 2019

18Apr19

Abstract: This article investigates to what extent the early modern period as the Confessional, Imperial and Economic Age was also an age of tolerance, how much early modern empires depended on religious minorities willing to migrate and settle overseas, how much in the words of Jonathan Israel religious migrants were “agents and victims of empire”. ¹ I will take the example of Sephardi Jews and Huguenots to analyse the agencies of persecuted religious minorities in negotiating terms and conditions for their (re-)settlement – more often than not as separate nations or at least separate communities within the ever-growing European empires.

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