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Papers by Molly Greene

International Journal of Maritime History, 2002

International Journal of Maritime History, 2007

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2021

Monasteries and the records they produced are a promising source base for writing a history of th... more Monasteries and the records they produced are a promising source base for writing a history of the mountains of the western Balkans. These mountains are, by and large, absent from accounts of the Ottoman presence in the Balkans and, as with mountainous areas more generally, are often considered to exist outside of the main historical narrative. Using the example of a monastery that was founded in the Pindus mountains in 1556, I argue that the monastery’s beginnings are best understood within the context of the Ottoman sixteenth century, even as due regard for Byzantine precedent must also be made. In addition, I pay close attention to the monastery’s location, for two reasons. First, this opens up a new set of questions for the history of monasteries during the Ottoman period; to date most studies have focused on taxation, land ownership and the relationship to the central state. Second, the monastery’s location offers a way into the environmental history of these mountains at the E...

Choice Reviews Online, 2016

Provides a nuanced picture of the Greek experience in the Ottoman empire. The period of Ottoman r... more Provides a nuanced picture of the Greek experience in the Ottoman empire. The period of Ottoman rule in Greek history has undergone a dramatic reassessment in recent years. Long reviled as four hundred years of unrelieved slavery and barbarity ('the Turkish yoke'), a new generation of scholars, based mainly but not exclusively in Greece, is rejecting this view in favor of a more nuanced picture of the Greek experience in the Ottoman Empire. This volume considers this new scholarship, most of it in Greek, and makes it accessible for the first time to a wider audience. Molly Greene also discusses the changing views of the Ottoman Empire more generally and assesses what this changing historiography can tell us about this period in Greek history. The book begins with the conventional date of 1453, the fall of Constantinople, and includes debates over the extent to which 1453 represented a real break with the past. The volume ends with the Russo Ottoman War of 1768 - 1774, which brought to an end the relative peace and stability of the Ottoman eighteenth century and helped to usher in the nationalist movements in the region. It covers the period from the fall of Constantinople to the Russo Ottoman War; It assesses new scholarship on the period and synthesises this for the reader; the fate of the 1,000 year Byzantine heritage; the millet system and Ottoman society; the connections between the Greek population and other members of Ottoman society and the Greeks in a European context.

Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean

Port cities in the eastern Mediterranean have received a good deal of attention from historians, ... more Port cities in the eastern Mediterranean have received a good deal of attention from historians, particularly in their nineteenth-century iteration when they were growing by leaps and bounds. 1 Yet despite the standard use of the term, the lion's share of the attention has gone to cities rather than ports themselves. Two themes have dominated the study of nineteenth century Izmir/Smyrna, Thessaloniki, Alexandria, and other, lesser

Osmanlı Araştırmaları

Noel Malcolm's exhaustively researched new book on several generations of the Albanian Bruni fami... more Noel Malcolm's exhaustively researched new book on several generations of the Albanian Bruni family will no doubt receive a good deal of attention from historians of Catholic Europe and the Counter-Reformation, and deservedly so. But Ottoman historians should read it as well. In vivid and elegant prose, Malcolm gives us the best account I have seen yet of the Ottoman conquest of the Albanian world, as well as a fine-grained study of cross-border relations and Ottoman diplomacy at work, both in the region and in Istanbul.

Historein

Maurizio Isabella and Konstantina Zanou, eds. Mediterranean Diasporas: Politics and Ideas in the ... more Maurizio Isabella and Konstantina Zanou, eds. Mediterranean Diasporas: Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xiii + 217 pages

Review of Middle East Studies, 2009

The English Historical Review, 2016

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International Journal of Middle East Studies, May 1, 2001

Daniel Panzac's newest book is both refreshing and sad. It is refreshing because, so often, b... more Daniel Panzac's newest book is both refreshing and sad. It is refreshing because, so often, books on Mediterranean commerce tend to paint a picture of the eternal sea, where ships ply their trade in 1700 much as they had in 900. Panzac's book is a story instead of abrupt shifts and the ability of individuals—in this case, Muslim North Africans—to respond to new commercial opportunities by venturing into previously untested waters. It is a sad book because it documents, in great detail, the ultimate exclusion of this same group of people from the ports of southern Europe, particularly Marseilles. This exclusion was one of the reasons that the North Africans returned to piracy. The French, of course, used the extirpation of piracy as one of the main justifications for their invasion and subsequent occupation of Algeria in 1830.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2012

The Journal of Modern History, 2015

Horden/A Companion to Mediterranean History, 2014

Mediterranean Historical Review, 2009

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2000

This lengthy two-volume work is part of a long-term Greek project to make foreign archives concer... more This lengthy two-volume work is part of a long-term Greek project to make foreign archives concerning modern Greek history more accessible to researchers in Greece. Professor Eleutherios Prevelakis, who passed away one year before the publication of these volumes, became the director of the Research Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History of the Academy of Athens in 1963. This position allowed him to conceive and carry through his program of collecting in microfilm form British archival material of relevance to modern Greece. The two volumes under review grew out of the work that he and Professor Merticopoulou conducted over many years in the archives of the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, which are stored in the Public Record Office.

Past & Present, 2002

's magisterial work, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, is a ... more 's magisterial work, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, is a study of the sixteenth century, but he does, nevertheless, look forward to the following century, during which he posits a 'Northern Invasion'. The northern invasion argument asserts that the Dutch, the English and the French swarmed into the Mediterranean with their superior sailing ships early in the seventeenth century, and seized control of the sea's commercial, financial and maritime life.1 This picture has been endorsed by many others, and is easily the dominant model for the Mediterranean world in the seventeenth century.2 But the northern invasion thesis is not only an argument about numbers and relative strength. It also asserts that economic competition between nation states replaced the old religious rivalry. The assertive language used implies that the arrival of the northern Europeans on the Mediterranean scene heralded a decisive break with the old conflict between Islam and Christianity and 1 It is at the end of his first volume that Braudel describes the northern invasion of the Mediterranean: Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, trans. Siân Reynolds, 2 vols. (New York, 1972), i, 615-42. 2 'If the eastern Mediterranean was in the process of sliding slowly and unconsciously into dependence on the Westerners. . .

Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants