Overview

Trading Places is winner of the triennial Historical Research Award of Italy Studies (2012). 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.

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Author:   Maartje van Gelder ,  Maartje Van Gelder
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.598kg
ISBN:  

9789004175433

ISBN 10:   9004175431
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   20 May 2009
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Trading Places offers both a useful confirmation of the great diversity and cosmopolitan nature of Mediterranean cities and a starting point for further studies of Netherlandish communities in early modern Venice and the Mediterranean. Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University. In: Journal of Modern History, Vol. 84, No. 3 (September 2012), pp. 748-750. Van Gelder's book represents a significant and valuable addition to the literature on commerce and society in early modern Venice. Dennis Romano, Syracuse University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 289-291. Trading Places is an important addition, not only to studies in Dutch commerce in Italy specifically but also to the more general research topic of Dutch merchants abroad [...] An outstanding achievement. Henk Looijesteijn, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis. In: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis Vol. 8, No. 3 (2011), pp. 117-121. 'Rijk geschakeerd en voortreffelijk onderbouwd. F. Vermeylen. In: De Zeventiende Eeuw vol. 27, no. 1 (2011) pp. 112-113.

AWARDS Trading Places is winner of the triennial Historical Research Award of Italy Studies (2012). REVIEWS Trading Places offers both a useful confirmation of the great diversity and cosmopolitan nature of Mediterranean cities and a starting point for further studies of Netherlandish communities in early modern Venice and the Mediterranean. Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University. In: Journal of Modern History, Vol. 84, No. 3 (September 2012), pp. 748-750. Van Gelder's book represents a significant and valuable addition to the literature on commerce and society in early modern Venice. Dennis Romano, Syracuse University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 289-291. Trading Places is an important addition, not only to studies in Dutch commerce in Italy specifically but also to the more general research topic of Dutch merchants abroad [...] An outstanding achievement. Henk Looijesteijn, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis. In: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis Vol. 8, No. 3 (2011), pp. 117-121. 'Rijk geschakeerd en voortreffelijk onderbouwd. F. Vermeylen. In: De Zeventiende Eeuw vol. 27, no. 1 (2011) pp. 112-113.

Author Information

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.

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