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Elena Frangakis-Syrett
 

Academic Affiliation:Queens College
Office phone: (718) 997-5354
E-Mail: Elena_Frangakis-Syrett@qc.edu

Field of Scholarship
Middle East; Ottoman Empire; Turkey; Greece; Economic History

Selected Publications

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

Yuzyilda Izmir'de Ticaret (1700-1820) (Izmir: Izmir Büyüksehir Belediyesi Kültür Yayini, 2006)

Οι Χιώτες έμποροι στις διεθνείς συναλλαγές, 1750-1850(Athens: Agricultural Bank of Greece,1995).

The Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1820

(Athens:  Centre for Asia Minor Studies,  1992, pp.xx  +  375) .

Articles:

"Patras" Review, Vol. XVI  (Fall 1993) , pp.  387-410.  This article has been reprinted, in a Turkish translation, in Dogu Akdeniz Liman Kentleri  (Port Cities in the Eastern

Mediterranean) (History Foundation of Turkey: Istanbul, 1994), pp. 23-44.

With Malcolm Wagstaff  "The Port of Patras in the Second Ottoman Period:  Economy, Demography and Settlements, C.  1700-1830", Revue du Monde Musulman et de Méditerranée, Vol.  66-4  (1993), pp.  79-94.

"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

With Malcolm Wagstaff "The Height Zonation of Population in the Morea, C. 1830", The Annual of the British School Archaeology at Athens, Vol. 87 (1992), pp.  439-446.

"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.

"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.

"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 internationales (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.

 
 
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