Bischoff, Christine and Demirbag, Mehmet and Wood, Geoffrey (2023) Cosmopolitanism and its Aftermath: The Rise and Fall of Greek and Turkish Business in Alexandria. Business History. pp. 1-31. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2220278
Bischoff, Christine and Demirbag, Mehmet and Wood, Geoffrey (2023) Cosmopolitanism and its Aftermath: The Rise and Fall of Greek and Turkish Business in Alexandria. Business History. pp. 1-31. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2220278
Bischoff, Christine and Demirbag, Mehmet and Wood, Geoffrey (2023) Cosmopolitanism and its Aftermath: The Rise and Fall of Greek and Turkish Business in Alexandria. Business History. pp. 1-31. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2220278
Abstract
This article explores the rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business and commerce in Alexandria, Egypt. As the existing literature alerts us, shifting forms of colonial rule made for a complex and multi-facetted cosmopolitanism, in which each community secured a distinct economic space. In part, this was due to the insertion of Alexandria into the growing world economy of the nineteenth century, which allowed for both the rise of modern businesses in trade and manufacturing, and a resurgence of quasi feudal, yet export orientated, forms of agricultural production; we evaluate this process through recourse to state and private sector archives. It is concluded that neither community was able to survive the rise of Egyptian nationalism and the diminishing space it allotted to ethnic business. We explore the implications of these findings for the study of business, cosmopolitanism and decosmopolitanization.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Alexandria; cosmopolitanism; ecosmopolitanization; Egypt; ethnic minority business; nationalism |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2023 15:52 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:22 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35684 |
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