Trading places : : the Netherlandish merchants in early modern Venice / / by Maartje van Gelder.

• Superior document: Library of economic history, v. 1
• Author: Gelder, Maartje van.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of economic history ; v. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Chapter One. Venice /; Chapter Two. Unlocking The Venetian Market: Changing Trade Relations In The 1590's /; Chapter Three. Combining The New With The Old: Netherlandish-Venetian Trade After The 1590's /; Chapter Four. The Community Of Netherlandish Merchants In Venice /; Chapter Five. Individual And Collective Strategies /; Chapter Six. At Home In Early Modern Venice /; Conclusion /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-230) and index.
• ISBN: 1282603124; 9786612603129; 9047428870
• ISSN: 1877-3206
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Maartje van Gelder.

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.