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

Year 2018, , 487 - 489, 20.04.2018

Emrah Safa Gürkan

https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.591843

Abstract

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.

Keywords

British-Ottoman, Relations, Diplomatic Practice

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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Michael Talbot, British-Ottoman Relations

References

• 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