Michael R. Palairet's scientific contributions

Publication (1)

Book
The Balkan Economies c. 1800–1914 is a strongly revisionist 1997 book which compares the economic progress of Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia in the century before World War I. Michael Palairet draws heavily on native-language primary sources to argue that these territories probably experienced economic decline rather than growth...

Citations

... With the annexation of today's northern Greece to the Greek state and following the turbulence and ethnic restructuring that accompanied the Balkan wars, the economic ties of the region were significantly hampered as the centre of gravity shifted southwards. Although population flows and exchanges remained significant until the Second World War, gradually the northern Greek territories became increasingly disconnected from their former Balkan hinterlands (Lampe and Jackson, 1982;Palairet, 1997). ...