Trading Places

The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17543-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

Reihe: Library of Economic History

This book deals with the Netherlandish merchant community in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice. It examines the merchants’ commercial activities, their social and communal relations, as well as their interaction with the Venetian state, which was accustomed to protect its own trade. The Netherlandish merchants in Venice, as part of an extensive international trading network, were ideally placed to connect Mediterranean and Atlantic commerce. They quickly became the most important group of foreign merchants in the city at a time of rapid economic changes. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, this book shows how these immigrant traders used their strong commercial position to secure a place in Venice. It demonstrates how the changing balance of international commerce affected early modern Venetian society.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in early modern merchant networks and trade, the history of Venice and the Mediterranean, and the economic expansion of the Dutch Republic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gelder, Maartje van

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
- A reversal of fortunes
- The decline of Venice and the rise of Amsterdam
- Merchant communities
- Approach and sources

Chapter 1. Venice
- Entering the city
- The inhabitants of Venice
- The Venetian state
- Declining Venetian commerce
- Immigrant traders in Venice: Germans, Ottomans, and Jews

Chapter 2. Unlocking the Venetian market: changing trade relations in the 1590s
- Early trade relations between Venice and the Low Countries
- In desperate need of cereals
- Importing Baltic grain into Venice

Chapter 3. Combining the new with the old: Netherlandish-Venetian trade after the 1590s
- The case of Cornelis Jansen
- Expanding commercial contacts
- Amsterdam-Mediterranean trade in 1646-1647
- Continuing overland trade

Chapter 4. The community of Netherlandish merchants in Venice
- The number of Netherlandish merchants in Venice
- The provenance of the Netherlandish merchants
- Forging family ties, economic partnerships, and bonds of friendship
- Religious differences?

Chapter 5. Individual and collective strategies
- Becoming Venetian citizens
- Petitions and privileges
- Banquets and charity
- Ambassadors and consuls

Chapter 6. At home in early modern Venice
- Finding a home
- A wealthy lifestyle
- Venetian relations
- Entering the Venetian patriciate

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maartje van Gelder, Ph.D. (2007) in History, University of Amsterdam, is lecturer in Early Modern History at the same university. She works on early modern Dutch relations with the Mediterranean, with particular interest for Venice.