Ιστορία και ναυτιλία, 16ος-20ός αιώνας

by Gelina Harlaftis (Editor)

Η ανεξάντλητη γοητεία της ιστορίας και της ναυτιλίας είναι η αστείρευτη έλξη των ταξιδιών, της προσέγγισης νέων τόπων, της «ανακάλυψης» νέων λαών και της ιστορίας τους, της γνώσης άλλων συνηθειών, γεύσεων και παθών, της ανάμιξης με ανθρώπους με άλλα και τόσο ίδια χαρακτηριστικά, άλλου χρώματος, δέρματος, με πιο σκούρα ή πιο ανοιχτά μάτια. Είναι η υπέρβαση των συνόρων, η αίσθηση του πλάτους και του μήκους του κόσμου, από τα παγωμένα νερά των βόρειων θαλασσών ως εκείνα των νότιων, από τα ζεστά νερά του Αιγαίου ως εκείνα των Δυτικών και Ανατολικών Ινδιών. Είναι η απόλυτη εξάρτηση από τη φύση και τους κινδύνους της θάλασσας, η απόλυτη ερημιά του ξύλινου ή σιδερένιου πλοίου που προχωράει με μια χούφτα ανθρώπους συναντώντας μόνο τον ωκεανό και τον ουρανό.

626 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Professor Gelina Harlaftis has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.), in St. Antony’s College between 1983 and 1988.

She has taught at the University of Piraeus from 1991 to 2002 and since 2003 is at the Department of History of the Ionian University. She was President of the International Association of Maritime Economic History during the period 2004-2008 and also Chair of the Dpt of History of the Ionian University (2004-2008). She has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Greenwich, U.K. and Memorial University of Newfoundland (1998-199) During the fall of the academic year 2008-2009 she was an “Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., International Visiting Scholar” in Business History Program of the Harvard Business School and in the spring a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College of the Oxford University. Her last publications are World’s Key Industry. The History and Economics of International Shipping (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2012), with Stig Tenold and Jesus Valdaliso; Merchant ‘Colonies’ in the Early Modern Period (15th – 18th Centuries) (Chatto & Pickering 2012), with Viktor Zakharov and Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Greeks in Romania, 19th century (Historical Archive of Alpha Bank, Αθήνα 2013), with Radu Pǎun; Greek Shipping, 1700-1821, (Κέδρος, Αθήνα 2013) with Katerina Papakonstantinou.

She has conducted a significant number of research projects including the one on “Greek Shipping businesses from the 18th to the 20th centuries” with ELIA funded by the Niarchos foundation, 1998-2004. She is presently conducting a major research project funded by the European Union and the Ministry of Education titled “The Black Sea and its port-cities, 1774-1914. Development, convergence and linkages with the global economy” in collaboration with five Greek and eleven foreign (Turkish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Georgian, American) universities and research institutes.