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An Appeal to the Governments and Monarchs of EuropeBy Mr. Louis Drucker
Representative of the Great Majority of Greek Foreign Bondholders
A letter to the Right Honourable J. Gennadius
Charge D'affairs of Greece, in England
Published by L. Van Vifterik Hz. in Leiden in 1877Pages 20First Edition23cm x 15cm
Joannes, Ioannes or John Gennadius (Greek: Ἰωάννης Γεννάδιος, 1844–1932) was a Greek diplomat, writer, and speaker, best known for his donation of his collection of Greek books and art to the Gennadius Library.
Between 1827 and 1877-78, Greece was excluded from Western financial markets. During these five decades and beyond, governments resorted (rather unsuccessfully) to internal borrowing while encouraging investment projects from wealthy diasporic Greeks, whose comprador capital, together with that of Jewish and Armenian merchant classes, was prominent in the Ottoman Empire. With low levels of industrial development, and unable to pursue economies of scale due to its small size,… Read More
