Levant Company
INTERVIEW: Despina Vlami on 'trading with the Ottomans'
The Levant Company may today be a little-known footnote of British and Ottoman history, but its centuries-long operations are an important marker of this early era of globalization, when diplomacy combined with war and high-stakes risk-taking at the sharp edge of economic expansion.
Trading with the Ottomans
'Trading with the Ottomans: The Levant Company in the Middle East' by Despina Vlami (IB Tauris, £62, 304 pages)
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