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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





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About the Author

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.