Greek Maritime History

From the Periphery to the Centre
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-46771-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 725 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Maritime History

This volume presents Greek Maritime History and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the core of the book lies the rise of the Greek merchant fleet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier. Following the evolution of Greek shipping for more than three centuries (17th-20th century), the book traces a maritime nation in its making and provides proof of a different, yet successful pattern of maritime development compared to other European maritime nations.
The chapters adopt a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach – spanning from shipping, fishing and trade to piracy, technology, human resources and entrepreneurship – and reflect the main directions of Greek maritime historiography over the last thirty years.

Contributors are: Apostolos Delis, Dimitris Dimitropoulos, Zisis Fotakis, Katerina Galani, Gelina Harlaftis, Evdokia Olympitou, Gerassimos D. Pagratis, Alexandra Papadopoulou, Socrates Petmezas, Evrydiki Sifneos, Anna Sydorenko, Ioannis Theotokas, and Katerina Vourkatioti.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Galani, Katerina

Papadopoulou, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Measures and Units

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Re-Conceptualising Greek Maritime History

Katerina Galani and Alexandra Papadopoulou

2 Greek Maritime History: Navigating Greek Historiography in Domestic and International Waters

Gelina Harlaftis

3 From Venetian to Ionian Protectionism: Research in the Early Modern Maritime History of the Greeks Subjects of Venice

Gerassimos D. Pagratis

4 Caught Between Empires: Agency, Neutrality and a Middleman Minority

Katerina Galani

5 Piracy in the Aegean: Aspects and Contradictions of Stereotypes

Dimitris Dimitropoulos

6 The Black Sea in the Global Economy of the Nineteenth Century: Introducing the Black Sea Historical Statistics, 1812–1914

Alexandra Papadopoulou and Socrates Petmezas

7 The Creation of the Main Export Port of Crimea: Port Policy, Traffic, Infrastructure in the Port of Theodosia, 1895–1913

Anna Sydorenko

8 Beyond the Mediterranean: Greek Family Business and the Familiarity of the Black and Azov Seas Maritime Space

Evrydiki Sifneos

9 The Advent of Steam Navigation in Greece in the Nineteenth Century

Apostolos Delis

10 The Introduction of Maritime Technology in Greek Fisheries: Diving Suites in Sponge Fishing in the Aegean

Evdokia Olympitou

11 Business Groups’ Diversification Strategy: The Case of Ralli Bros Diversifying in Shipping

Katerina Vourkatioti

12 Greek Shipping in the Twentieth Century: The Human Resources

Ioannis Theotokas

13 The Development of Naval History in Greece, 1989–2020

Zisis Fotakis

Epilogue: Greek Maritime History or Maritime History of the Greeks?

Katerina Galani and Alexandra Papadopoulou

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katerina Galani, Ph.D. (2011), Oxford University, is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies and teaches Economic and Social History at the Hellenic Open University. Her publications include British Shipping in the Mediterranean During the Napoleonic Wars (Brill, 2017). Her recent work involves the formation of the port-city of Piraeus during the industrialization and the naval and merchant fleet during the Greek War of Independence (1821-1831).

Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ph.D. (2011), Ionian University, is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies. She published “Foreign merchant business and the integration of the Black and Azov Seas of the Russian Empire into the First Global Economy” (Business History, 2012). Her research interests are related to the evolution of Greek maritime communities during the 18th and 19th centuries and the role of maritime business in globalization in the Black Sea economy of the 19th century.