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Friends and rivals in the East : studies in Anglo-Dutch relations in the Levant from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century / edited by Alastair Hamilton, Alexander H. de Groot & Maurits H. van den Boogert.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International economic relations.
- Middle East--Foreign economic relations--Netherlands.
- Middle East.
- Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--Middle East.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--Netherlands.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--Netherlands.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- Netherlands--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- Netherlands.
- Netherlands--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Netherlands--Foreign economic relations--Middle East.
- Middle East--Foreign economic relations--Great Britain.
- Middle East--History--1517-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2000]
- Summary:
- This volume, based on both European and Ottoman sources, investigates the commercial, military and diplomatic relations between the Dutch and the English in the Levant from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. On the one hand there was a more or less constant commercial rivalry and there were moments of outright military hostility between the two powers. On the other a common life in the Near East led to a form of solidarity which transcended the political situation in the home countries. The role of the local population of the Levant, of Ottoman officials, and of the Greeks, Armenians and other eastern Christians who intervened both as merchants and as embassy dragomans or interpreters, was often decisive in influencing the dealings between the Dutch and English residents. The nine papers examine these different aspects of a relationship which has never before been studied in a Levantine context.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: de Groot, de Friends and Rivals in the East
- ISBN:
- 90-04-47661-X
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004476615 DOI
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