List of Illustrations, Preface, A Note on Sources, I The Radcliffes, 2 The Levant Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 3 The Levant Company, 4 The Levant Merchants, 5 The Aleppo Factors, 6 English Cloth in the Levant Trade, 7 The Cloth Market at Aleppo, 8 Persian and Syrian Silk, 9 Silk Trading in Aleppo, 10 Shipping, 11 Money in the Levant, I2 Credit and Money-lending, 13 Profits in the Levant Trade, Index