The invisible backbone of diplomacy

A look at everyday life in the messages of the Ottoman Empire shows that early modern diplomacy was not only shaped by “great men”.

In May 1681, Thomas Coke, secretary of the English embassy in Istanbul, traveled to Izmir, there to be the newly arriving ambassador James Chandos in

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The invisible backbone of diplomacy

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