Trading with the Ottomans: The Levant Company in the Middle East
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Overview
Arguably, trade is the engine of history, and the acceleration in what you mightcall ‘globalism’ from the beginning of the last millennium has been driven by communities interacting with each other through commerce and exchange. The Ottoman empire was a trading partner for the rest of the world, and therefore the key link between the west and the middle east in the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. much academic attention has been given to the east india Company, but less well known is the Levant Company, which had the exclusive right to trade with the Ottoman empire from 1581 to 1825. The Levant Company exported British manufacturing, colonial goods and raw materials, and imported silk, cotton, spices, currants and other Levantine goods. it set up ‘factories’ (trading establishments) across Ottoman lands and hired consuls, company employees and agents from among its members, as well as foreign tradesmen and locals. here, despina vlami outlines the relationship between the Ottoman empire and the Levant Company, and traces the company’s last glimpses of prosperity combined with slump periods and tension, as both the Ottoman and the British empire faced significant change and war. she points out that the growth of ‘free’ trade and the end of protectionism coincided with modernisation and reforms, and while doing so, provides a new lens through which to view the decline of the Ottoman world.
Here, despina vlami outlines the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Levant Company, and traces the company’s last glimpses of prosperity combined with slump periods and tension, as both the Ottoman and the British Empire faced significant change and war.
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Foundation- Organisation-Dissolution
Part 2 Corporate and Individual Strategies: The Transition from Monopoly to Free Trade
Part3 Entrepreneurial form and Strategy
Part 4 Business, Social Identity and Everyday Life
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
- Title: Trading with the Ottomans: The Levant Company in the Middle East
- Author: Despina Vlami
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780857736802, 0857736809
- Resource ID: LLS:9780857736802
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T13:16:29Z
Despina Vlami is Senior Researcher at the Academy of Athens where she directs a research program on Trade and Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean.