Trading Places: The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice

Trading Places: The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice
ISBN-10
9004175431
ISBN-13
9789004175433
Series
Trading Places
Category
History
Pages
265
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Maartje van Gelder

Description

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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