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De trondhjemske handelshusene på 1700-tallet: slekt, hushold og forretning
In: Skriftserie fra Historisk institutt 26
'All of my remaining property I donate to the poor…': institutions for the poor in Norwegian cities during the eighteenth century
In: Scandinavian economic history review, Volume 62, Issue 1, p. 75-93
ISSN: 1750-2837
Merchant households and their networks in eighteenth-century Trondheim
In: Continuity and change: a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies, Volume 17, Issue 2, p. 213-231
ISSN: 1469-218X
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.