For more than two centuries following its formation in 1581, the
Levant Company enjoyed a monopoly of British trade with the Ottoman
Empire and provided Britain's diplomatic representation at the
Sultan's court and throughout the Ottoman territories. Rather than
focusing on "the Turkey trade" itself, or on the merchants who
engaged in it, Christine Laidlaw examines the supporting cast of
Britons -- officials, clergymen, physicians and accompanying family
members -- who lived and worked alongside the merchants at the
Company's three principal trading posts at Istanbul, Izmir and
Aleppo during the eighteenth century. This unique perspective will
be invaluable for historians of the eighteenth century and the
Ottoman Empire.
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