ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to highlight manifestations of entrepreneurial organization and activity on the part of the Greek element in Central Europe during the nineteenth century, using a micro-historical approach in order to analyse the financial progress of the Manos family, an emigrant family from western Macedonia. At this point, I need to make a general and mostly self-explanatory observation. The analysis of a specific case study, in this case the Manos family, allows the historian to transfer the focus of his research from the scale of macro-historical observation to the field of individual aims and actions which represents more effectively the reality of subjective experience.
