Michael Talbot, British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul

With the rise of socio-economic, cultural, and environmental history, diplomatic history has long been relegated to a secondary status and viewed as an archaic field that merely reproduces primary documents and records “what one clerk said to another clerk.” Conflating foreign policy with diplomacy with a clear Rankean penchant of Primat der Außenpolitik, such a dry methodology has few to offer to modern readers, now used to interdisciplinary approaches.

British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul

With the rise of socio-economic, cultural, and environmental history, diplomatic history has long been relegated to a secondary status and viewed as an archaic field that merely reproduces primary documents and records “what one clerk said to another clerk.” Conflating foreign policy with diplomacy with a clear Rankean penchant of Primat der Außenpolitik, such a dry methodology has few to offer to modern readers, now used to interdisciplinary approaches.

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  • Michael Talbot, British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017, xiii + 256 pp., ISBN 978-1-78327-202-0