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Preface Chapter One : Capitulations, Consulates, and the Eastern Crisis of the 1820s
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Chapter Two : William Meyer in Prevesa: Pashas and Rebels
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Chapter Three : John Cartwright in Constantinople: Consular and Commercial Complications
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Chapter Four : Francis and Nathaniel Werry in Smyrna: Chios, Piracy, and Russophobia
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Chapter Five : Henry Salt and John Barker: Notes from Cairo, Alexandria, and Aleppo
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations and map
- Map: Ottoman Empire in Asia after 1792
- Sultan Mahmud II, artist unknown
- Ali Pasha of Ioannina, by Louis Dupré, 1819
- “Massacre at Chios,” by Eugène Delacroix, 1824
- Henry Salt, by John James Halls, c. 1815
- Consul Francis Werry (1745-1832)
- Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt, portrait from 1840s, artist unknown
Credit for No: 6 and cover: Tom Rees, Merchant Adventurers in the Levant: Two British Families of Privateers, Consuls, and Traders, 1700-1956 (Stawell, Somerset: Talbot, 2003)
Cover: View of the Tovn and Bay of Smyrna, 1818.