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British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807 - Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Hardcover)
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British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807 - Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Hardcover)
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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 of an ambassador from the restored British crown in 1661 to
the sudden evacuation of his successor and the outbreak of the
first Ottoman War in 1807. Using a rich variety of sources in
English, Ottoman Turkish and Italian, some of them never before
examined, including legal documents, financial ledgers and
first-hand accounts from participants, he reconstructs the detail
of diplomatic practice in rituals of gift-giving and hospitality
within the Ottoman court; examines the at times very different
meanings that they held for the British and Ottoman participants;
andtraces the ways in which the declining fortunes of the Levant
company directly affected the ability of the embassy to perform
effectively within Ottoman conventions, at a time when rising
levels of British violence in and around the Ottoman realm marked
the journey towards British imperialism in the region. MICHAEL
TALBOT is Lecturer in History at the University of Greenwich.
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