Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GlobalMed (The Mediterranean as a Laboratory of Globalisation: The Franco-Ottoman Cloth Trade, 1683-c.1715)

In the early 1700s, France overcame English and Dutch competition to become the Ottoman Empire’s main European trading partner. To date, historians have focussed on Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s (in)famous minister, and his influence on the crucial Franco-Ottoman...