{"product_id":"the-business-of-transition-jewish-and-greek-merchants-of-salonica-from-ottoman-to-greek-rule-hardback-9781503639669","title":"The Business of Transition; Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule (Hardback) 9781503639669","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Business of Transition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eParis Papamichos Chronakis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503639669\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 October 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages, 10 halftones, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.657 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A fascinating examination of a vitally important city moving through the critical transition from Ottoman Imperial to Greek national rule, \u003ci\u003eThe Business of Transition\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new and textured account of the period, showing that the mercantile classes were both central to and tremendously skillful at navigating this shift. Equally rich in sources and interpretation, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of Greeks, Jews, and the emergence of the 'New Greece.'\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Katherine Fleming, author of \u003ci\u003eGreece: A Jewish History\u003c\/i\u003e \"Richly documented, \u003ci\u003eThe Business of Transition\u003c\/i\u003e charts the profound transformations that affected the economic and political elites of one of the Mediterranean's great commercial hubs. Paris Papamichos Chronakis sheds new light on a singular chapter in the history of nationalism that reshaped the modern Jewish world.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Francesca Trivellato, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells us about the Making of European Commercial Society\u003c\/i\u003e \"In a field that has historically focused only on minority groups' transition, Chronakis examines the lived experiences and interactions between both groups. In addition, he rejects traditional studies' sole focus on ethnoreligious identity and argues that identity is multifaceted and, in this case, includes social class and local Salonican identity.\"—Linda Kantor-Swerdlow, Jewish Book Council \"Paris Papamichos Chronakis's \u003ci\u003eThe Business of Transition\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force: Deeply researched and beautifully written, it offers an unprecedented window into the worldsofJewish and Greek merchants in Salonica during the first decades of the twentieth century. This period was oneofdizzying change, which included revolution, war, occupation, and a massive fire that remade the city and dislocated most of the city's Jews. A relational history, the book provides thick descriptions of how different actors—and groups—navigated thetransitionfrom Ottoman to Greek rule, forging alliances and rivalries not only along ethnoreligious lines but also according to class, professional, political, urban, and regional formsofidentification. With his erudite analysis and ability to uncover subtle and shifting patterns of behavior and belonging, Chronakis pushes us to move beyond unilinear descriptions of the transition from empire to nation or majority to minority. Instead, we are left with an image of Hellenization as a 'more crooked line than straight path,' an approach made concrete through the book's fine-grained analysisofthe various twists and turns taken along the way.\"\u003cbr\u003e  – Julia Phillips Cohen, author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era\u003c\/i\u003e \"This well-plotted book is an interesting mix of national and business history concerning the vicissitudes of Salonica (today's Thessaloniki), the commercial center of the emerging Greek state from the late 19th century through the early 1920s.... Recommended.\"—S. Bowman, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Business of Transition\u003c\/i\u003e forces us to reconsider the history of minoritisation.... The book is certainly a must read for anyone interested in the emergence of modern Greece.\"—Usman Butt, \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Business of Transition\u003c\/i\u003e examines how the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigated the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century. In this social and cultural history, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst revolution and war, rising ethnic tensions, and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen, community members, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePapamichos Chronakis draws on previously untapped local archival material to weave a rich narrative of individual portraits, introducing us to revered philanthropists and committed patriots as well as vilified profiteers and victimized Salonicans. Offering a kaleidoscopic view of a city in transition, this book reveals how the collapse of empire shook all the constitutive elements of Jewish and Greek identities, and how Jews and Greeks reinvented themselves amidst these larger political and economic disruptions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA Note on Languages, Places, Names, and Dates\u003cbr\u003e  List of Maps and Figures\u003cbr\u003e  Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: Salonica's Merchants between Empire and Nation-State\u003cbr\u003e  Part I: Making Salonica Jewish and Bourgeois, 1882–1908\u003cbr\u003e  Jacob Cazes\u003cbr\u003e  1. Merchants, Jews, Greeks\u003cbr\u003e  2. Merchants, Bourgeois, Salonicans\u003cbr\u003e  Part II: Maelstrom: Revolution and War, 1908–1918\u003cbr\u003e  Abram and David Errera\u003cbr\u003e  3. Revolutionary Hopes, Merchant Fears\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Balkan Wars: Politics in Times of Conflict\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Great (Class) War, 1914–1918\u003cbr\u003e  Part III: Remaking Salonica Greek and Bourgeois, 1912–1922\u003cbr\u003e  Joseph Misrahi\u003cbr\u003e  6. Toward Hellenization: Coming, Going, Staying, Becoming\u003cbr\u003e  7. From Clubs to Associations: New Sociabilities, New Identities\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: \"\u003cbr\u003eMy end is my beginning\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670811668760,"sku":"9781503639669","price":45.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-business-of-transition-jewish-and-greek-merchants-of-salonica-from-ottoman-to-greek-rule-hardback-9781503639669","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}