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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
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.
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