Consuls and nations in the Levant from 1570 to 1650

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to compare the consular institutions of four European states in the Levant during a specific period, in the hope that this will illuminate the strengths and weaknesses of the various institutional forms that were adopted.

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Niels Steensgaard

Niels Steensgaard, M.A. 1959 (History), Research Fellow in the University of Copenhagen, has written about ‘Freight Costs in the English East India Trade, 1601–1657’, (Scand. Econ. Hist. Rev., vol. xiii: 2). The present article is an expanded and annotated version of a paper read to the Third International Congress of Economic History in Munich in August 1965, section xiii on Instrumentalities of International Trade.