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For God, mammon, and country : a nineteenth-century Persian merchant, Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb (1834-1898)

Title
For God, mammon, and country : a nineteenth-century Persian merchant, Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb (1834-1898) / Shireen Mahdavi.
Author
Mahdavi, Shireen.
Publication
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.

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TextRequest in advance HC472.5.A45 M34 1999Off-site

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Description
xviii, 286 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-272) and index.
Contents
1. The Beginning: 1250-1274/1834-1857 -- 2. Early Years in Tehran: 1267-1280/1850-1863 -- 3. Period of Growth: 1280-1290/1863-1873 -- 4. The Successful Entrepreneur: 1288-1300/1871-1883 -- 5. Political and Industrial Activities: 1300-1304/1883-1887 -- 6. The Railway Quest and the European Trip: 1304-1306/1887-1888 -- 7. Years of Triumph and Reversal: 1306-1311/1888-1894 -- 8. Last Years: 1313-1316/1896-1898.
ISBN
0813336422 (alk. paper)
LCCN
99027937
OCLC
ocm41137681
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries