Trading with the Ottomons. The Levant Company in the Middle East

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Scholarly work. Structured in four sections: 1] 'Foundation, organisation, dissolution' - 'Foundation of a chartered company' / 'A 'body corporate and politick' - the Levant Company's organisation' / 'Later years - corporate organisation, individual interests and national identity'; 2] 'Corporate and individual strategies - the transition from monopoly to free trade' - 'British trade in the Levant - the historical background' / 'New trade routes and itineraries' / 'New partnerships - trading with the Ottomans' / 'Tariffs and duties'; 3] 'Entrepreneurial form and strategy' - 'Entrepreneurial form' / 'Strategy - compliance and deviation' / 'transactions and interactions in the Levant - Bartholomew Edward Abbott, Luisa Vernon and the Constantinople Factory'; 4] 'Business, social identity and everyday life' - 'The Abbott House' - ie the Salonica house of the Abbott family which, plus contents, are described in detail from a 1818 inventory. The Abbott family is dealt with at length. The following are referred to Jacob Bosanquet; Francis Charnaud; Francis Werry; John Cartwright; George Liddell; Isaac Morier; Bartholomew Abbott