Elena Frangakis-Syrett

Professor

 

Areas of Specialization
  • Ottoman/Middle Eastern History
    Economic, late 17th-early 20th centuries; Ottoman Empire 18th-19th centuries
  • Greek and Balkan History

 

Books and Articles of Interest
Books:

The Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1820 (Athens: Centre for Asia Minor Studies, 1992).

I Chiotes Empori stis Diethnis Synallages, 1750-1850 (The Chiot Entrepreneurs in International Trade, 1750-1850) (Athens: Agricultural Bank of Greece, 1995).

18. Yuzyilda Izmir'de Ticaret (1700-1820) (Izmir: Izmir Buyuksehir Beledesi Kultur Yayini, 2006)

Trade and Money: The Ottoman Economy in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Istanbul: Isis Press, forthcoming publication, 2007).

Articles:

"Market Networks and Ottoman-European Commerce, c. 1700-1825", Oriente Moderno, Vol. LXXXVI/1 (2006), pp. 109-128.

Networks of Friendship, Networks of Kinship: Eighteenth-Century Levant Merchants", Eurasian Studies, Vol. 1/2 (2002), pp. 189-212.

Izmir and the Ottoman Maritime World of the Eighteenth Century", Oriente Moderno, Vol. XX, n.s., No. 1 (2001), pp. 109-128.

"The Making of a Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Port: the Quay of Izmir", The Journal of Transport History, 3rd Series, Vol. 22/1 (March 2001), pp. 23-46.

"The Economic Activities of the Ottoman and Western Communities in Eighteenth-Century Izmir", Oriente Moderno, Vol. XVIII (LXXIX), n.s., No 1 (1999), pp. 11-26.

"Commerce in the eastern Mediterranean from the Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries: the City-Port of Izmir and its Hinterland", International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. X, No. 2 (December 1998), pp. 125-154.

"Monoculture in Nineteenth-Century Greece and the Port-City of Patras", Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Vol. 20.2 (1994), pp. 9-34.

"Patras", Review, Vol.XVI (Fall 1993), pp. 387-410.

This article has been republished, in a Turkish translation in C. Keyder, Y. Eyup Ozveren & D. Quataert, eds., Dogu Akdeniz Liman Kentleri (Port Cities in the Eastern Mediterranean) (Tarih Vakfi Yurt Yayinlari: Istanbul, 1994), pp. 23-44.

"The Implementation of the 1838 Anglo-Turkish Convention on Izmir's Trade: European and Minority Merchants", New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol. 7 (Spring, 1992), pp. 91-112.

"Trade Practices in Aleppo in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century: The Case of a British Merchant", Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Metierranee, Vol. 62, No 4 (1991), pp. 123-227.

"Greek Mercantile Activites in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1780-1820", Balkan Studies, Vol. 28-1 (1987), pp. 73-86.

Chapters in Books:

"Monetary Shortage and the Ottoman Economy: Late Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Centuries", in W. Arbid, S. Kancal, J.-D. Mizrahi & S. Saul, eds., Mediterranee, Moyan Orient: deux siecles de relations internaitnales (L'Harmattan: Paris, 2003), pp. 109-131.

"The coastal trade of the Ottoman Empire from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries" in John Armstrong & Andreas Kunz, eds., Coastal Shipping and the European Economy, 1750-1980 (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Mainz-am-Rhein, 2002), pp. 130-149.

"Commercial Strategies and Competition in the Levant: the British and the Dutch in eighteenth-century Izmir", in A. Hamilton, a. de Groot & M. van den Boogert, eds., Friends and Rivals in the East (Brill: Leiden, 2000), pp. 135-158.

"L'economie de l'Anatolie occidentale, 1908-1914", in M. Bazin, S. Kancal, R. Perez, J. Thobie, eds., La Turquie entre trois mondes (Institut Francais d'Etudes Anatoliennes: Paris, 1998), pp. 239-248.

"The Role of European Banks in the Ottoman Empire in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Centuries", in A. Teichova, G. Kurgan-van Hentenryk & D. Ziegler, eds., Banking, Trade and Industry in Europe (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1997), pp. 263-276.

 

 

 
Contacts

Office: PH 352 A1
Phone: (718) 997-5354
elena.frangakis-syrett@qc.cuny.edu

 

 

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