Resumen de Discussing the public debt of the eastern mediterranean countries (1820S-1910S)

Darina Martykánová, Juan Pan-Montojo

• The question of the public debt of the Eastern Mediterranean countries fuelled intense, heated debate both in the debtor countries and among the creditors, mainly in France and Britain. We aim to show how the credibility of the Greek and Ottoman governments was established and discussed in the leading financial centres (Paris and London), and how contracting foreign loans was perceived, managed and questioned in the debtor countries. In a way the three main articles here can be seen as offering a sort of cultural history of public debt in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 1820s up to the First World War