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A commerce of knowledge : trade, religion, and scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760 / Simon Mills.

By: Mills, Simon [author.]Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191875915 (ebook) :Subject(s): Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant -- Officials and employees | English -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century | English -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 18th century | Orientalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century | Orientalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Great Britain -- Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences | Great Britain -- Relations -- Middle East | Middle East -- Relations -- Great BritainAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198840336DDC classification: 303.482182105 LOC classification: DS61.85 | .M5 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: '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.
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This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'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.

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