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