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Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 List of illustrations 9 List of maps 11 List of figures and tables 13 List of abbreviations 15 Note on dates, names, and currency 17 Introduction 19 A reversal of fortunes 19 The decline of Venice and the rise of Amsterdam 24 Merchant communities 29 Approach and sources 33 Chapter One Venice 39 Entering the city 39 The inhabitants of Venice 43 The Venetian state 46 Declining Venetian commerce 50 Immigrant traders in Venice: Germans, Ottomans, and Jews 54 Chapter Two Unlocking the Venetian market: changing trade relations in the 1590s 59 Early trade relations between Venice and the Low Countries 59 In desperate need of cereals 66 Importing Baltic grain into Venice 74 Chapter Three Combining the new with the old: Netherlandish-Venetian trade aft er the 1590s 85 The case of Cornelis Jansen 85 Expanding commercial contacts 90 Amsterdam-Mediterranean trade in 1646–1647 95 Continuing overland trade 108 Chapter Four The community of Netherlandish merchants in Venice 117 The number of Netherlandish merchants in Venice 117 The provenance of the Netherlandish merchants 124 Forging family ties, economic partnerships, and bonds of friendship 128 Religious diff er

Who reads Trading Places?

Author

van Gelder, Maartje;

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Mystery, Fiction

Rating

3.39 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14