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 and Maurits H. van den Boogert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Alastair Hamilton -- Trade, politics and strategy : the Anglo-Dutch wars in the Levant (1647-1675) / Jonathan I. Israel -- Merchants, nations and free-agency : an attempt at a qualitative characterization of trade in the eastern Mediterranean, 1620-1640 / Rhoads Murphey -- An undiplomatic Anglo-Dutch dispute at the porte : The quarrel at Edirne between Coenraad van Heemskerck and Lord Paget (1693) / Colin Heywood -- The Anglo-Durch 'Smyrna fleet' of 1693 / Sonia P. Anderson -- At the backdoor of the Levant : Anglo-Dutch competition in the Persian Gulf, 1623-1766 / Ben Slot -- Commercial practices and competition in the Levant : the British and the Dutch in eighteenth-century Izmir / Elena Frangakis-Syrett -- Towards classifying avanias : a study of two cases involving the English and Dutch nations in seventeenth-century Izmir / Merlijn Olnon -- European patronage in the Ottoman Empire : Anglo-Dutch conflicts of interest in Aleppo (1703-1755) / Maurits H. van den Boogert -- Dragomans' careers : the change of status in some families connected with the British and Dutch embassies at Istanbul, 1785-1829 / Alexander H. de Groot.