- Dr Anna Sydorenko graduated from the Department of Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of A... moreDr Anna Sydorenko graduated from the Department of Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She completed her Ph.D. thesis at the Ionian University (Corfu) entitled “The Economic Development of the Crimean Port-Cities, Second Half of the 19th – Beginning of the 20th Century. Evpatoria, Sebastopol, Theodosia”. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Janissaries in Ottoman Port-Cities: Muslim Financial and Political Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean” (ERC Starting Grant 2019, project coordinator Yannis Spyropoulos), in the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas. Her research focuses on maritime economic and social history, port history, Russian imperial history, history of the Black Sea, and the Greek diaspora. She has participated in research projects on maritime and economic history and has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes.edit
This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type of primary sources... more
This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type of primary sources on the transition from sail to steam navigation, written in a variety of languages, Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, Russian and Ottoman.
Questions that arise in the book include the labour conditions, wages, career and retirement of seafarers, the socio-economic and spatial transformations of the maritime communities and the changes in the patterns of operation, ownership and management in the shipping industry with the advent of steam navigation. The book offers a comparative analysis of the above subjects across the Mediterranean, while also proposes unexplored themes in current scholarship like the history of navigation.
Contributors are: Luca Lo Basso, Andrea Zappia, Leonardo Scavino, Daniel Muntane, Eduard Page Campos, Enric Garcia Domingo, Katerina Galani, Alkiviadis Kapokakis, Petros Kastrinakis, Kalliopi Vasilaki, Pavlos Fafalios, Georgios Samaritakis, Kostas Petrakis, Korina Doerr, Athina Kritsotaki, Anastasia Axaridou, and Martin Doerr.
Questions that arise in the book include the labour conditions, wages, career and retirement of seafarers, the socio-economic and spatial transformations of the maritime communities and the changes in the patterns of operation, ownership and management in the shipping industry with the advent of steam navigation. The book offers a comparative analysis of the above subjects across the Mediterranean, while also proposes unexplored themes in current scholarship like the history of navigation.
Contributors are: Luca Lo Basso, Andrea Zappia, Leonardo Scavino, Daniel Muntane, Eduard Page Campos, Enric Garcia Domingo, Katerina Galani, Alkiviadis Kapokakis, Petros Kastrinakis, Kalliopi Vasilaki, Pavlos Fafalios, Georgios Samaritakis, Kostas Petrakis, Korina Doerr, Athina Kritsotaki, Anastasia Axaridou, and Martin Doerr.
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This volume presents Greek Maritime History and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the core of the book lies the rise of the Greek merchant eet and its transformation... more
This volume presents Greek Maritime History and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the core of the book lies the rise of the Greek merchant eet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier. Following the evolution of Greek shipping for more than three centuries (17th-20th century), the book traces a maritime nation in its making and provides proof of a di ferent, yet successful pattern of maritime development compared to other European maritime nations. The chapters adopt a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach-spanning from shipping, shing and trade to piracy, technology, human resources and entrepreneurship-and re ect the main directions of Greek maritime historiography over the last thirty years.
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This volume presents Greek Maritime History and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the core of the book lies the rise of the Greek merchant eet and its transformation... more
This volume presents Greek Maritime History and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the core of the book lies the rise of the Greek merchant eet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier. Following the evolution of Greek shipping for more than three centuries (17th-20th century), the book traces a maritime nation in its making and provides proof of a di ferent, yet successful pattern of maritime development compared to other European maritime nations. The chapters adopt a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach-spanning from shipping, shing and trade to piracy, technology, human resources and entrepreneurship-and re ect the main directions of Greek maritime historiography over the last thirty years.
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This article deals with the primary sources in the Ukrainian archives which pertain to the establishment and function of the networks of the Janissaries of the Crimean Khanate with their neighbors in the northern Black Sea frontier... more
This article deals with the primary sources in the Ukrainian archives which pertain to the establishment and function of the networks of the Janissaries of the Crimean Khanate with their neighbors in the northern Black Sea frontier region. It demonstrates the extent to which it is possible to use this archival material in order to study the history of relations between the Janissaries of the Black Sea port-cities and the main powers of the steppeland, namely the Zaporozhian Cossacks and the Ukrainians of the Left Bank Hetmanate. The paper raises questions about the ways in which these groups were interacting with each other and at what levels, also focusing on how these established networks of the great steppe region were affected and transformed by the Ottoman-Russian struggle and the gradual expansion of the Russians to the south.
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This article examines the relationships between the three Crimean port-cities of Sevastopol, Theodosia and Evpatoria and their hinterlands, which were defined by the grain export trade. The second half of the nineteenth century was marked... more
This article examines the relationships between the three Crimean port-cities of Sevastopol, Theodosia and Evpatoria and their hinterlands, which were defined by the grain export trade. The second half of the nineteenth century was marked by the transformation of the southern region of the Russian Empire into the granary of Europe. Port-cities became dynamic nodes, connecting cereal production in the hinterland of southern Russian and the Mediterranean maritime distribution networks in the Mediterranean. Based mainly on primary Russian and Ukrainian archival sources, this article shows and examines how the development of the Crimean port-cities was determined by connections between ports and their respective hinterlands, the types of commodities exchanged and a variety of internal and external political and economic factors.
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This special issue is a small collection of essays devoted to the history of the Janissaries, intended to be the first of a series of publications investigating the processes which made the Janissary Corps a formidable political and... more
This special issue is a small collection of essays devoted to the history of the Janissaries, intended to be the first of a series of publications investigating the processes which made the Janissary Corps a formidable political and socioeconomic power both at the Ottoman center and in the provinces. The papers included here were originally presented in a workshop which took place at İzmir Kâtip Çelebi University in September 2021, organized within the framework of the ERC-funded project “JANET: Janissaries in Ottoman Port-Cities: Muslim Financial and Political Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean”, a project dedicated to examining the functioning of Janissary networks in the Ottoman Empire, conceiving of them as inextricably connected to Muslim political and economic networks across a large part of the Mediterranean.
Research Interests: Economic History, Ottoman History, Ukrainian Studies, Political History, Ottoman Studies, and 15 moreOttoman Empire, Social History, Ottoman Military History, Economic History of Ottoman Empire, Black Sea region, Ukraine, Ottoman Arab Provinces, Ottoman Egypt, Administration of Ottoman State, Ottoman Janissaries, Aleppo, Janissaries, Adana, Social & Political History, and Ottoman İstanbul
The transition from sail to steam in the Russian Empire and specifically in the northern Black Sea coast began gradually after the Crimean War (1853-1856). The latter followed the example of European countries by creating state-subsidized... more
The transition from sail to steam in the Russian Empire and specifically in the northern Black Sea coast began gradually after the Crimean War (1853-1856). The latter followed the example of European countries by creating state-subsidized liner companies such as the Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company (known in Russian as ROPIT) formed in 1856. Although bulk tramp shipping carrying mainly grain cargoes was in the hands of foreigners, like Greeks, English, Austrians, etc., from the last third of the 19th century, ROPIT was able to develop and take an important share of the liner Black Sea trade and hence change the organization of the Black Sea maritime trade. The Russian shipping company was able to gradually take over an 80% of the passenger traffic to and from the ports of the northern and eastern Black Sea coasts, by establishing regular services to the ports of the Mediterranean and Northern...
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This paper examines the creation and changes of different models of payment for the crews of the Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company (RSNT). The importance of RSNT in the Odessa shipping world meant that whatever changes took... more
This paper examines the creation and changes of different models of payment for the crews of the Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company (RSNT). The importance of RSNT in the Odessa shipping world meant that whatever changes took place had an impact to the overall maritime labour system. The first-established system of payment of the captains with the fixed yearly salary for each category changed after few years of the operation of the company. The administration took a decision to improve the methods of payment to «more equitable and equivalent to their work», as they believed. Taking under consideration the latter change, the system of payment for lower ranks of the crews will be analyzed, indicating the importance of professional skills and the impact of technological transformation. Furthermore, the hierarchical relations between the administration of the company, the captains and the other crew members will be presented providing an overall picture of the labour market in Odessa port-city.
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Odessa is the most important maritime center in the Black Sea, but its maritime dimension remains under-researched. The port-city of Odessa developed as the largest commercial and shipping center of the Black Sea that was transformed to... more
Odessa is the most important maritime center in the Black Sea, but its maritime dimension remains under-researched. The port-city of Odessa developed as the largest commercial and shipping center of the Black Sea that was transformed to the largest grain-exporting area in the world integrated in the global economy during the second half of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century. The aim of this paper is to present a methodological model of analysis of the maritime center of Odessa during the transition from the sailing ship to the steamship era. The rich archival material provided by the State Archive of the Periphery of Odessa, offer ample evidence for an overall picture of Maritime Odessa: ships, seamen, shipping companies, agencies and ship chandlers, shipbuilding and shiprepairing, port infrastructure and port authorities.
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This article deals with the primary sources in the Ukrainian archives which pertain to the establishment and function of the networks of the Janissaries of the Crimean Khanate with their neighbors in the northern Black Sea frontier... more
This article deals with the primary sources in the Ukrainian archives which pertain to the establishment and function of the networks of the Janissaries of the Crimean Khanate with their neighbors in the northern Black Sea frontier region. It demonstrates the extent to which it is possible to use this archival material in order to study the history of relations between the Janissaries of the Black Sea port-cities and the main powers of the steppeland, namely the Zaporozhian Cossacks and the Ukrainians of the Left Bank Hetmanate. The paper raises questions about the ways in which these groups were interacting with each other and at what levels, also focusing on how these established networks of the great steppe region were affected and transformed by the Ottoman-Russian struggle and the gradual expansion of the Russians to the south.