Merchants on the Mediterranean: Ottoman-Dutch Trade in the Eighteenth Century Vlami Despina
Merchants on the Mediterranean: Ottoman-Dutch Trade in the Eighteenth Century Vlami Despina How easy and uncomplicated was it for an 18th-century, medium-sized, Ottoman trade company to expand its…
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Merchants on the Mediterranean: Ottoman-Dutch Trade in the Eighteenth Century Vlami Despina
How easy and uncomplicated was it for an 18th-century, medium-sized, Ottoman trade company to expand its business in the West? To expand their wholesale trade business to Amsterdam, the Cardamicis chose as their local correspondent an experienced and strong-minded Dutch merchant, Thomas De Vogel. Which kind of resources, in terms of knowledge, information, experience, contacts and capital, could guarantee its successful passage from the business environment of a precapitalist oriental market to that of a major commercial and financial center of western Europe?Following the venture of the Ottoman Greek merchants Bartholo and Raphael Cardamici, who in the 1760s traded goods between Smyrna, Constantinople and Amsterdam, Despina Vlami investigates various aspects of the organization and strategy necessary for such an important transition.
De Vogel's letters addressed to his Ottoman