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Merchants on the Mediterranean: Ottoman-Dutch Trade in the Eighteenth Century
Despina Vlami
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Description for Merchants on the Mediterranean: Ottoman-Dutch Trade in the Eighteenth Century
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black and white illustrations and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDT; 1QRM; HBJD; KCLT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
How easy and uncomplicated was it for an 18th-century, medium-sized, Ottoman trade company to expand its business in the West? Which kind of resources, in terms of knowledge, information, experience, contacts and capital, could guarantee its successful passage from the business environment of a precapitalist oriental market to that of a major commercial and financial center of western Europe? Following the venture of the Ottoman Greek merchants Bartholo and Raphael Cardamici, who in the 1760s traded goods between Smyrna, Constantinople and Amsterdam, Despina Vlami investigates various aspects of the organization and strategy necessary for such an important ... Read more
How easy and uncomplicated was it for an 18th-century, medium-sized, Ottoman trade company to expand its business in the West? Which kind of resources, in terms of knowledge, information, experience, contacts and capital, could guarantee its successful passage from the business environment of a precapitalist oriental market to that of a major commercial and financial center of western Europe? Following the venture of the Ottoman Greek merchants Bartholo and Raphael Cardamici, who in the 1760s traded goods between Smyrna, Constantinople and Amsterdam, Despina Vlami investigates various aspects of the organization and strategy necessary for such an important ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784538675
SKU
V9781784538675
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Ref
99-2
About Despina Vlami
Despina Vlami is Director of Research in the Research Center for Medieval and Modern Hellenism of the Academy of Athens, Greece, where she directs a program on Trade and Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean, 17th-19th centuries. She is the author of The Florin, the Grain and Via del Giardino: Greek merchants in Livorno (1750-1868), (2000), and Trading with the Ottomans: ... Read more
Reviews for Merchants on the Mediterranean: Ottoman-Dutch Trade in the Eighteenth Century
A stimulating and unprecedented study that traces the everchanging relationship between an experienced Dutch trader and Greek outsiders in the 18th century. A fascinating revisit of the theme of cross-cultural trade through microhistory.
Thierry Allain, Paul Valéry University of Montpellier, France
Based on new primary data, this book analyzes - through the lens of micro-history - the trading ... Read more
Thierry Allain, Paul Valéry University of Montpellier, France
Based on new primary data, this book analyzes - through the lens of micro-history - the trading ... Read more