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Maritime War and Trade and Southeastern Europe, 1740-1920: The Setting, the Issues, and the Results

Category: Ionian History
Type: Standard
Book Title: Proceedings of the XVIIth Conference on War and Society in East Central Europe
Author: Ropp A. Theodore
Edition: 6-8 June 1985
Editor: Kiraly K. Bela
Pages: 381-398
Publisher: Atlantic Research and Publications
Series: Atlantic Studies on Society in Change
Volume: XXIII
Library catalog: Κοργιαλένειος Βιβλιοθήκη Αργοστολίου
Date: 1988
URL: 387.155 I.B.S.
Location: New Jersey

Abstract:

[p. 381] By 1740, however, most European states represented landed elites, who protected what Thucydides would have called their 'resources' behind legal barriers which enclosed rivers, lakes, coasts, and even entire seas ... What Europe's Christian states wanted in the Turkish eastern Mediterranean were legal protections for their men, ships, and goods. But these would eventually be translated into lands for themselves or their client Christian nationalities.


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