Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria

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dc.contributor.authorBischoff, Christine
dc.contributor.authorDemirbag, Mehmet
dc.contributor.authorWood, Geoffrey
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-11T13:03:41Z
dc.date.available2023-08-11T13:03:41Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-21
dc.description.abstractThis 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 multifaceted 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.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationBischoff C, Demirbag M, Wood G. (2023) Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria, Business History, Available online 21 June 2023en_UK
dc.identifier.eissn1743-7938
dc.identifier.issn0007-6791
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2220278
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/20076
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectAlexandriaen_UK
dc.subjectethnic minority businessen_UK
dc.subjectpopulationen_UK
dc.subjectcosmopolitanismen_UK
dc.subjectdecosmopolitanizationen_UK
dc.subjectEgypten_UK
dc.subjectnationalismen_UK
dc.titleCosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandriaen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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