Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria
本文利用国家和私人档案，考察了埃及亚历山大港希腊和土耳其商业的兴衰，指出殖民统治变化和世界经济发展塑造了复杂的多元共处格局，但埃及民族主义的兴起最终导致这些族裔商业的衰落。
This article explores the rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business and commerce in Alexandria, Egypt. As the existing literature alerts us, shifting forms of colonial rule made for a complex and multifaceted cosmopolitanism, in which each community secured a distinct economic space. In part, this was due to the insertion of Alexandria into the growing world economy of the nineteenth century, which allowed for both the rise of modern businesses in trade and manufacturing, and a resurgence of quasi feudal, yet export orientated, forms of agricultural production; we evaluate this process through recourse to state and private sector archives. It is concluded that neither community was able to survive the rise of Egyptian nationalism and the diminishing space it allotted to ethnic business. We explore the implications of these findings for the study of business, cosmopolitanism and decosmopolitanization.