DR CARMEL VASSALLO
MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE

Major Publications

Corsairing to Commerce: Maltese Merchants in XVIII Century Spain / Carmel Vassallo, Malta, 1997.

The Malta Chamber of Commerce 1848 – 1979: An outline history of Maltese Trade / Carmel Vassallo, Malta, 1998.

Consolati di Mare and Chambers of Commerce: Proceedings of a Conference held at the Foundation for International Studies (Valletta, 1998) / Carmel Vassallo (ed.), Malta, 2000.

Movements and Gateways, Special Double Issue of Journal of Mediterranean Studies. Vol. 10, Nos. 1 and 2 / Victor Mallia-Milanes and Carmel Vassallo (eds.), Malta, 2000.

Themes in Maritime History: Special Issue of Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2 / Carmel Vassallo (ed.), Malta, 2002.

The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx’s Legacy to Humanity / Carmel Vassallo and Clare Thake Vassallo (eds.), Malta, 2003.

Journal of Mediterranean Studies, General Issue, Volume 13, No. 1/ Paul Clough and Carmel Vassallo (eds.), Malta, 2003.

New Directions in Mediterranean Maritime History, monograph in the Research in Maritime History series published by The International Maritime Economic History Association / Gelina Harlaftis and Carmel Vassallo (eds.), Newfoundland, Canada, 2004.

Making Waves in the Mediterranean, Special Double Issue of Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 16, No 1/2 / Carmel Vassallo and Ruthy Gertwagen (eds.), Malta, 2006.

Anglo-Saxons in the Mediterranean / Carmel Vassallo and Michela D’Angelo (eds.), Malta, 2007.

Directory of Mediterranean Maritime Historians / Carmel Vassallo, Malta. http://home.um.edu.mt/medinst/mmhn_directory.pdf .

 

Papers

"El reclutamiento de marineros malteses en la armada española durante la segunda mitad del Siglo XVIII" in Revista de Historia Naval, Año VIII No 30, Madrid 1990, 21-29.

"Los Malteses en la Valencia de Siglo XVIII" in Actas Primer Coloquio Internacional Hispano-Maltés de Historia, Madrid 1991, 65-79.

"Los Malteses en el Cadiz del Siglo XVIII" in Gades. Homenaje a Don Jose Muñoz Perez, No 20, Cadiz 1992, 361-374.

"The Brigantine Trade in XVIII century Malta" in Proceedings of History Week 1993, Malta 1997, 107-122.

"The Consular Network of XVIII century Malta" in Proceedings of History Week 1994, Malta 1996, 51-62.

"The Malta Chamber of Commerce" in Proceedings of History Week 1996, Malta, (forthcoming).

"La Colonia Mercantil Maltesa en la Barcelona del Siglo XVIII" in Historia moderna. Historia en construcción Vol I Economía, mentalidades y cultura (ed.) Carlos Martinez Shaw, Lleida 1999, 221-236.

"The Establishment of the Malta Chamber of Commerce" in Consolati and Chambers of Commerce. Proceedings of a conference held at the Foundation for International Studies (Valletta 1998), Carmel Vassallo (ed.), Malta 2000, 127-132.

"From petty traders to big businessmen. The saga of the Caruana of Valencia" in Proceedings International Conference on Foreign Elites, Minorca 11-14 September 1998 (forthcoming).

"Trade between Malta and the Barbary Regencies in the Nineteenth Century with special reference to Tunisia" in L'Homme et la Mer. Actes du Colloque des 7-8-9 mai 1999 a Kerkenneh, Abdelhamid Fehri (ed.), Sfax, Tunisia 2001, 169-185.

"Sources for the history of maritime trade in Malta" in Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 9 No. 7, Malta 1999, 14-17.

"Malta and the Black Sea Corn Trade in the Nineteenth Century" in Proceedings of the International Congress: The culture of wheat: reflections for a European itinerary within the Mediterranean Basin, Antonio Guerci (ed.), Genova 1999.

"The Maltese Mercantile Diaspora in the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries" in Movements and Gateways. Special Double Issue of Journal of Mediterranean Studies Vol. 10. No. 1, Malta 2000, 1-9.

"The Maltese Merchant Fleet and the Black Sea Grain Trade in the nineteenth century" in International Journal of Maritime History, Volume XIII, Number 2, Newfoundland, Canada 2001, 19-36.

"Maltese Corsairing or Christian Corsairing based in Malta. A reassessment" in L'Ordre de Malta, el regne de Mallorca i la Mediterrania, Palma de Mallorca, 2001, 285-290.

"La Societa di Navigazione Maltese" in Proceedings of Seminar on Maltese Merchant Shipping in the Nineteenth Century, Malta, 2001.

“Corsairing and Piracy in Malta” in Pirates. The Skull and Crossbones. Catalogue of exhibition at The National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel, Ruthi Gertwagen and Avshalom Zemer (eds.), Haifa 2002, 202-206.

“The Maltese Entrepreneurial Networks in the Maghreb in the Early Modern and Contemporary Periods” in Proceedings of Conference entitled Les Îles Méditerranéennes. Des Relais Civilisationnels à travers l’Histoire, University of Sfax, 28 February- 2 March 2002 , Sfax, 2004, 199-207.

“Maltese Entrepreneurial Networks. A Comparative Perspective” Session 10 Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks C.1000-2000, in XIII International Economic History Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina 22-26 July, 2002, available on line at http://www.eh.net/XIIICongress/English/index.html . An abridged version available in Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks. Four Centuries of History, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe et al (eds.), UK, 2005, 125-144.

“Commercial Relations between Hospitaller Malta and Sicily and Southern Italy in the mid-eighteenth century” in Atti del Convegno Internazionale sui rapporti diplomatici e scambi commerciali nel Mediterraneo moderno, Salerno 2004, 445-459.

“The Maltese in Eighteenth-Century Spain. A Comparative Perspective” in Primer Coloquio Internacional. Los extranjeros en la España Moderna, Malaga, 2003, 667-680.

"Maltese Entrepreneurs in Spain, 1750s-1850s. Some lessons for the present" in Storja 2003-2004, Malta, 2003, 76-83.

“Maritime History since Braudel,” Introduction to New Directions in Mediterranean Maritime History, monograph in the Research in Maritime History series, Gelina Harlaftis and Carmel Vassallo (eds.), Newfoundland, Canada 2004, 1-19.

“Chambers of Commerce” in Encyclopedia of World Trade since 1450, John J. McCusker (ed.), New York, 2006.

“The Limits to Collaboration: the Impact of the Establishment of the NAAFI (Navy, Army and Airforce Institutes) on Malta’s Mercantile Class” in The Anglo-Saxons in the Mediterranean, Carmel Vassallo and Michela D’Angelo (eds.), Malta, 2007, 181-192.

“Servants of Empire: The Maltese in the Royal Navy” in Making Waves in the Mediterranean: Special Double Issue of Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 16, No 1/2, Carmel Vassallo and Ruthi Gertwagen (eds.), Malta: Malta University Press, 2006, 273-289.

“Riding the Crest of the Wave: A Review of Malta's Maritime History over the last Two Hundred Years" in The Maritime History and Heritage of the Maltese Islands, Timmy Gambin (ed.), Midsea Publications, Malta. (Forthcoming).

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