Table of Contents

Introduction: De/re-constructing the history of Ottoman-British relations
The framework of relations
The office of ambassador
Trade and diplomatic finances
Gift-giving
Diplomacy as performance
Negotiating disputes
Conclusions: De/reconstructing Ottoman-British diplomacy
Bibliography

Reviews

[An] outstanding study...essential reading for anyone (including undergraduates) interested in this subject.
*HISTORY*

Talbot's book is a valuable contribution to the current efforts in research to de-exoticize the history of Euro-Ottoman relations and to contextualize these relations within the framework of the development of the early modern state system. . . . [I]t is a well-written and concise book, solidly based on the recent methodological trends in the history of foreign relations.
*JOURNAL OF EARLY MODERN HISTORY*

Talbot's detailed study provides a decidedly more nuanced picture than we have had to date of British-Ottoman relations in the long eighteenth century.
*Journal of British Studies*