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Migrants, Merchants and Philanthropists: Hierarchies in Nineteenth-Century Greek Ports

Trade, Migration and Urban Networks in Port Cities, c. 1640-1940

This chapter examines the urban networks and hierarchies in place in Greek port communities in th... more This chapter examines the urban networks and hierarchies in place in Greek port communities in the Nineteenth century. It is particularly concerned with the ports of Corfu (under British rule), Patras, Syros, and Piraeus. It seeks to further understand how networks of power developed in these ports, by exploring the mercantile communities that resulted from in-migration; the synergy between merchants and state authorities and the hierarchies; the networks that developed from wealth, commercial activity, access to resources, access to information, and the ability to raise capital; and, finally, the role of merchant philanthropy within the community. It concludes that merchants benefited from a convergence of socio-economic interests as a result of short and medium term alliances and the backing of advances to urban progress, and secured their own distinct class within the Greek economic hierarchy.

Trade, politics and city space(s) in Mediterranean ports

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Class and national identities in the Ionian Islands under British rule

Routledge, Mar 3, 2016

Is Salonica Jewish?

Jewish Salonica by Devin E. Naar, Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies at the University... more Jewish Salonica by Devin E. Naar, Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington, is a very important new addition to the history of Sephardic Jews and the transition of Salonica from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek state, a history of “Jewish Salonica” as the title suggests. Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Writing Based on Archival Material, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council, and more recently winner of the 2017 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA), the book is already a hit. Navigating the choppy waters of Greek nationalism and Jewish identities, the book is divided into five distinct chapters (one published as an article in the past) that altogether and each one individually demonstrate the transition from a religious, self-governed community in the late Ottoman Empire to the status of religious minority that the Salonica Jews acquired from the 1920 onward. It is a sig...

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Apo tin Istoria tou Kosmou stin Pagkosmia Istoria i apo ton Herodoto sti Megali Apoklisi’ [From the History of the World to Global History or from Herodotus to the Great Divergence]

‘Class and national identities in the Ionian Islands under British rule’ in Roderick Beaton (ed.)

‘Banking Expansion, Success and Failure in the British Mediterranean; the Ionian Bank, 1840s-1930s’ (forthcoming with Alexander Apostolides) in G. Tortella, J. Consiglio, J. C. M. Oliva (eds.)

The merchants of the Ionian Islands between East and West. Forming local and international networks’ in M.S. Beerbuhl and J. Vogele (eds)

Ellinikes poleis-limania to dekato enato aiona; istoria, istoriografia kai sygkriseis’ [Nineteenth-Century Greek Port Cities. History, Historiography and Comparisons], in L. Sapounaki-Drakaki (ed)

From the Nation to Emancipation: Greek Women Warriors from the Revolution (1820s) to the Civil War (1940s)

Women Warriors and National Heroes, 2020

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Xenocracy

Xenocracy, 2016

Public Health in Crete under the rule of Mehmed Ali in the 1830’s

Égypte/Monde arabe, 2007

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Thesmoi kai Eksousia stin Poli tis Kerkyras sta mesa tou 19ou aiona [Institutions and Power in Corfu town in the mid-nineteenth century]

Review of K. P. Kostis's "Τα κακομαθημένα παιδιά της Ιστορίας": Η διαμόρφωση του νεοελληνικού κράτους 18ος-21ος αιώνας ["History’s spoiled children": The formation of the modern Greek state, 18th-21st centuries]

HISTOREIN, 2014

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Global history in the age of crisis: metanarratives of material progress and the rise of Asia

HISTOREIN, 2013

Metanarratives of material progress have been around at least since the time of Smith, Marx and W... more

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The South Asia Textiles Industry in a Globalizing World', 8th Gehn Meeting, Pune, 18–20 December 2005

Textile History, 2006

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Class and cosmopolitanism: the historiographical fortunes of merchants in Eastern Mediterranean ports

Mediterranean Historical Review, 2009

This article examines the historiographical trajectory of merchants in Eastern Mediterranean port... more This article examines the historiographical trajectory of merchants in Eastern Mediterranean ports, from a commercial bourgeoisie to cosmopolitan citizens. The paper argues that despite recent historiographical trends, class is still a valuable analytical tool, and is compatible with the notion of cosmopolitanism. A class dimension when approaching the history of Mediterranean ports is important because it emphasizes the urban inequalities and intra-communal hierarchies and can explain the inter-communal conflicts that characterized most of these ports in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Colonial migrants and the making of a British Mediterranean

European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 2012

This article examines the concept and colonial reality of the British Mediterranean through the i... more This article examines the concept and colonial reality of the British Mediterranean through the imperial network of trade and migration from and to areas under British political and/or economic control. The hybrid identities of many citizens in the colonial Mediterranean can best be seen in the perception and reality of the ports of the Eastern Mediterranean as cosmopolitan. The article also argues that the role and experience of these migrants as intermediate groups was determined by the form of rule British colonial authorities imposed in each dominion.

A Colonial Sea: the Mediterranean, 1798–1956

European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 2012

The Mediterranean has been a colonial sea since ancient times. While historians of the pre- and e... more The Mediterranean has been a colonial sea since ancient times. While historians of the pre- and early modern world still tend to describe this region with the Braudelian paradigms of unity and continuity, the historiography of the modern Mediterranean suffers from the widespread fragmentation of national and regional studies, including important contributions on the colonial history of North Africa and

A Global History of Ottoman Cotton Textiles, 1600-1850

This text may be downloaded for personal research purposes only. Any additional reproduction for ... more This text may be downloaded for personal research purposes only. Any additional reproduction for other purposes, whether in hard copy or electronically, requires the consent of the author(s), editor(s). If cited or quoted, reference should be made to the full name of the author(s), editor(s), the title, the working paper or other series, the year, and the publisher. The author(s)/editor(s) should inform the Max Weber Programme of the EUI if the paper is to be published elsewhere, and should also assume responsibility for any consequent obligation(s).

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