Aleppo and Devonshire Square. English traders in the Levant in the eighteenth century

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Reprinted 1999. Not intended as a history of the Levant trade but 'to show how people actually carried on business in the period - roughly 1750-60 - for which the most ample information is available; to explain the problems facing those who took part in the trade and especially the functions, methods and limitations of factors overseas, and how they worked in relation to their London principals'. Based on private records of individual merchants, most notably the Radcliffe family, and on the letters exchanged between London merchants and their factors in the Levant - 'I have provided an essential minimum of general description of the Levant trade and the Levant Company, and given the main attention to the methods, problems, organisation and fortunes of individual traders'. Sections include: Levant trade in 18th century; Levant Co; Levant merchants; Aleppo factors; English cloth in the Levant trade; cloth market at Aleppo; Persian and Syrian Silk; silk trading at Aleppo; shipping; money in the Levant; credit and money lending, profits of the Levant trade. Much about the Radcliffe family of merchants; less about the Barkers and Bosanquets