British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul

by Michael Talbot and Michael Talbot

A richly sourced account of diplomatic practice in the British mission to Istanbul from 1661 to 1807.

The British Embassy in Istanbul was unique among other diplomatic missions in the long eighteenth century in being financed by a private commercial monopoly, the Levant Company. In this detailed study, Michael Talbot shows how theintimate relation between commercial interest and diplomatic practice played out across the period, from the arrival...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783272023
• ISBN13: 9781783272020
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"