Author: Vakalopoulos, Apostolos E. ; Svolopoulos, Konstantinos D. ; & Király, Béla K. ; editors:
Title: Southeast European Maritime Commerce and Naval Policies from the Mid-eighteenth Century to 1914
Description: Thessaloniki / Boulder, Institute for Balkan Studies, 1988. orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, xvi, 410 pp. Series: War and society in East Central Europe, vol. 23 / East European monographs, No. 266 / Hidryma Mel. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 24 papers, all in English. Includes: Maritime commerce and the Balkans before the French Revolution; French commerce with the Bulgarian territories from the eighteenth century to 1914; Maritime war and trade in Southeastern Europe, 1740-1920 : the case of France; The eastern question in British naval policy and strategy, 1789-1913; War, peace, and internationality : the Danube, 1789-1916; The problems of international navigation on the Danube in Austro-Hungarian politics during the second half of the nineteenth century; The Greeks and navigation on the lower Danube in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Austro-Hungarian warships on the Danube : from the beginning of the nineteenth century to World War I; The state and the Greek commercial fleet during the nineteenth century; Navigation and trade in the Ionian and lower Adriatic seas in the eighteenth century; Lajos Kossuth’s maritime policies; The decline of the Greek "companies" in Transylvania : An aspect of Habsburg economic policies in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean; Maritime commerce of the Habsburg Empire : the port of Trieste, 1789-1913; The port of Syra during the nineteenth century; The port of Smyrna in the nineteenth century; The commercial development and economic importance of the port of Thessaloniki, from the end of the eighteenth century to the end of World War I; The West European trade cycle and price movement in the Salonika economic region during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; etc.

Keywords: European Maritime History, Balkan Balkans, Merchant Marine, Navy Naval Policy, Commerce Trade, Economic Economy, Southeast Europe, Economics,