Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-03T00:22:43.614Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Merchant households and their networks in eighteenth-century Trondheim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2002

IDA BULL
Affiliation:
Department of History, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Abstract

This article deals with merchants in international trade from the seventeenth and into the nineteenth century, most of them of immigrant background. Based on a discussion of the work of the household in gender terms the main point is to show how the merchants were eager to construct working network relations. Family and kinship relations are discussed as a crucial element in the merchants' networks, and throughout their world of household, regional contact networks and international networks run structures of hierarchical and patriarchal authority and at the same time non-hierarchical relations of equality.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)