Despina Vlami
I.B. Tauris, London - New York 2015
Type: Selected Bibliography

The Levant Company traded British manufacturing with the Ottomans for two centuries, hiring de facto ambassadors, locals, explorers and adventurers and tradesmen. It set up 'factories' (trading posts) across the Ottoman lands and traded skins, textiles, crafts and spices. Here Vlami focuses on the company's long decline - utilizing new archival research she unpicks this crucial partnership and assesses it's important to the modern world.