Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One Countering Dutch Commercial Expansion in Northwestern Anatolia -- Chapter One The Town of Ankara and its Mohair Industry -- Chapter Two The Heyday and Interruption of the Dutch Mohair Trade -- Chapter Three European Recovery and Ottoman Opposition -- Preliminary Conclusions -- Part Two Ottoman Counter-Expansion -- Chapter Four The Organization of the Dutch Levant Trade in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter Five The Ottoman Penetration of Dutch Trading Networks -- Chapter Six Ottoman Merchants in Amsterdam -- Part Three Accommodating the "Unusual": Adjustments in Dutch and Ottoman Policies -- Chapter Seven The Transformation of Dutch Trade Policies in the Levant: From Free Trade to "Faint" Protectionism -- Chapter Eight Ottoman Polity: From Decision Making to Policy Making -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.