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The publications of the Hakluyt Society made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Thomas Dallam, an organ-builder, was sent by Queen Elizabeth to the sultan of Turkey at Constantinople. His diary reveals a lively curiosity towards the sights, but a dislike of foreigners. Dr John Covel, later vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, went to Constantinople as chaplain to the ambassador Sir Daniel Harvey in 1670. While there, he travelled widely, and collected books, manuscripts and other items. He was one of the first Western visitors to write about Mount Athos, and studied the Orthodox Church.
Dallam, Thomas, --- Covel, John, --- Travel --- Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant. --- Turkey --- Mediterranean Region --- Description and travel --- Early works to 1800. --- Covell, John, --- Colvill, John, --- Covill, John, --- Turky Company --- Turkey Company --- Levant Company --- English Levant Company --- Levant Company of Turkey Merchants --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region
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"Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The 'pashas' - merchants and travelers from Europe - discovered an Islamic world that was alluring, dynamic and diverse." "Ranging across two and a half centuries and through the great cities of Istanbul, Aleppo and Alexandria, James Mather tells the forgotten story of the men of the Levant Company who sought their fortunes in the Ottoman Empire. Their trade brought to the region not only merchants but ambassadors and envoys, pilgrims and chaplains, families and servants, aristocratic tourists and roving antiquarians. Together, their lives provide a fascinating insight into the meeting of East and West before the age of European imperialism."--BOOK JACKET.
British --- Merchants --- Travelers --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- Businesspeople --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Travel&delete& --- History --- Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant --- Turky Company --- Turkey Company --- Levant Company --- English Levant Company --- Levant Company of Turkey Merchants --- History. --- Great Britain --- Islamic countries --- Middle East --- Turkey --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Ottoman Empire --- Relations --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Commerce --- Travel --- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
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'A Commerce of Knowledge' tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who worked in Ottoman Aleppo during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By reconstructing their careers, Simon Mills shows the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests.
Science --- Economic relations. Trade --- History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Asia --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant --- Turky Company --- Turkey Company --- Levant Company --- English Levant Company --- Levant Company of Turkey Merchants --- Officials and employees. --- England --- Middle East --- Aleppo (Syria) --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Aleppo --- Alep (Syria) --- Beroea (Syria) --- Chale (Syria) --- Chelbon (Syria) --- Haleb (Syria) --- Helbon (Syria) --- Halēp (Syria) --- Khalepion (Syria) --- Biblical Beroea (Syria) --- Berea (Syria) --- Madīnat Ḥalab (Syria) --- Ḥalab (Syria) --- Aram-Tsova (Syria) --- Ḥalev (Syria) --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Relations --- Civilization --- 1600-1799
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Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant --- Reasons offer'd by the merchants trading to Italy against the bill desired by the Levant-Company for repealing a clause in the Act of Navigation --- Great Britain -- Commerce -- Turkey -- Early works to 1800 --- Turkey -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
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Before the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean. Business was organized in family firms, merchant networks, and state-owned enterprises, and dominated by Chinese, Indian, and Arabic traders. However, around 1600 the first two joint-stock corporations, the English and Dutch East India Companies, were established. Going the Distance tells the story of overland and maritime trade without Europeans, of European Cape Route trade without corporations, and of how new, large-scale, and impersonal organizations arose in Europe to control long-distance trade for more than three centuries. Ron Harris shows that by 1700, the scene and methods for global trade had dramatically changed: Dutch and English merchants shepherded goods directly from China and India to northwestern Europe. To understand this transformation, Harris compares the organizational forms used in four major regions: China, India, the Middle East, and Western Europe. The English and Dutch were the last to leap into Eurasian trade, and they innovated in order to compete. They raised capital from passive investors through impersonal stock markets and their joint-stock corporations deployed more capital, ships, and agents to deliver goods from their origins to consumers. Going the Distance explores the history behind a cornerstone of the modern economy, and how this organizational revolution contributed to the formation of global trade and the creation of the business corporation as a key factor in Europe's economic rise.
Corporations --- History. --- Eurasia --- Commerce --- Economic conditions. --- Accounting. --- Arabian Sea. --- Arabs. --- Armenians. --- British Empire. --- Business Activities. --- Cairo Geniza. --- Calculation. --- Caravanserai. --- Case study. --- Central Asia. --- Central Europe. --- China. --- Civilization. --- Commodity. --- Confucianism. --- Corporation. --- Creditor. --- Currency. --- Dividend. --- Dutch East India Company. --- Eastern Mediterranean. --- Economic development. --- Economics. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Ethnic group. --- Eurasia. --- Eurasian (mixed ancestry). --- Europe. --- Exchange rate. --- Exit Option. --- Expense. --- Expropriation. --- Fugger. --- Fujian. --- Fustat. --- General partnership. --- Governance. --- Guangzhou. --- Gujarat. --- Income. --- Indian Ocean trade. --- Indian Ocean. --- Indonesia. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Investor. --- Islam. --- Jews. --- Joint venture. --- Joint-stock company. --- Jurist. --- Legal history. --- Levant Company. --- Limited partnership. --- Literature. --- Livorno. --- Lock-in (decision-making). --- Longevity. --- Malabar Coast. --- Merchant. --- Middle East. --- Mongols. --- Muziris. --- New Julfa. --- North Africa. --- Organizational structure. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Ownership. --- Partnership. --- Passive investor. --- Payment. --- Principal–agent problem. --- Quanzhou. --- Receipt. --- Roman Law. --- Routledge. --- Shareholder. --- Silk Road. --- Song dynasty. --- South India. --- Southeast Asia. --- Spice trade. --- Sri Lanka. --- Stock market. --- Stock trader. --- Supply (economics). --- Syndicate. --- Tax. --- Technology. --- Trade route. --- Turpan. --- Usury. --- Wealth. --- Western Asia. --- Western Europe. --- Writing. --- Yuan dynasty. --- Zheng (state). --- Zheng He.
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