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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: The Levant Company in the Middle East, (I.B. Tauris 2015).
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 Valery University of Montpellier, France * The book based on primary data hitherto unknown in its entirety analyzes --through the lens of micro-history-- the trading activities of a partnership where the Ottoman firm, based in Smyrna and Constantinople, is the principal/employer and the Dutch firm, based in Amsterdam, is the agent/employer. Given the near uniqueness of a study where the Ottoman is the employer, rather than the agent or intermediary, the book contests the narrative of dominance for Westerners and lack of agency for Ottomans in the Empire's international trade, already by 1760. * Elena Frangakis-Syrett, The City University of New York, USA *
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