Victor N. Zakharov, Gelina Harlaftis, Olga, Katsiardi-Hering

'these essays do not just expand the geographical boundaries well beyond Western Europe, but also emphasize the importance of studying these merchant colonies by taking a longer timeframe than that of one or two generations of traders.' European History Quarterly

• Introduction, Victor N. Zakharov, Gelina Harlaftis, Olga Katsiardi-Hering; Chapter 1 Early Modern English Merchant Colonies: Contexts and Functions, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp, Joost Veenstra; Chapter 2 German and Italian Merchant Colonies in Early Modern England, Beverly A. Dougherty; Chapter 3 Dynamism and Integration of the North European Merchant Communities in French Ports in the Eighteenth Century, Pierrick Pourchasse; Chapter 4 Opportunity and Legislation: How the Armenians Entered Trade in Three Mediterranean Ports, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe; Chapter 5 Russian Merchant Colonies in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Jarmo Kotilaine; Chapter 6 Foreign Merchant Communities in Eighteenth-Century Russia, Victor N. Zakharov; Chapter 7 Greek Merchant Colonies in Central and South-Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Olga Katsiardi-Hering; Chapter 8 Community for Commerce: An Introduction to the Nezhin Greek Brotherhood Focusing on its Establishment as a Formal Institution in the Years Between 1692 and 1710, Iannis Carras; Chapter 9 Entrepreneurship at the Russian Frontier of International Trade. The Greek Merchant Community/Paroikia of Taganrog in the Sea of Azov, 1780s–1830s, Evrydiki Sifneos, Gelina Harlaftis;