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The shah's silk for Europe's silver : the Eurasian trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530-1750)

Title
The shah's silk for Europe's silver : the Eurasian trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530-1750) / by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe.
Author
Baghdiantz McCabe, Ina.
Publication
Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, ©1999.

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Description
xxii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
University of Pennsylvania Armenian texts and studies ; no. 15
Uniform Title
University of Pennsylvania Armenian texts and studies ; no. 15.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1530-1750
  • Armenians > Commerce > History. > Iran > Iṣfahān
  • Silk industry > Iran > History
  • Silk industry > Europe > History
  • Armenians > Commerce
  • Ethnic relations
  • Silk industry
  • Armenier
  • Außenhandel
  • Armenians > Commerce > History. > Iran > Isfahan
  • Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) > Ethnic relations > History
  • Europe
  • Iran
  • Iran > Iṣfahān
  • Iran > Iṣfahān > Julfa
  • Europa
  • Indien
  • Armenier
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-406) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Problems And Polemics -- Chapter I. International Context of the Silk Trade -- Chapter II. Outsiders as a new Elite: The Safavids and their Deportation Policy in the Caucasus -- Chapter III. Republic of New Julfa: The "Armenian Nation" within the Safavid State -- Chapter IV. Armenian Silk Trade and Iran's Early State Formation -- Chapter V. New Julfans as Financiers of the Court -- Chapter VI. Decline of New Julfa and its Loss of Political Status in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter VII. Merchant Organization and National Interest -- Chapter VIII. "Armenian Trading Company" of New Julfa -- Chapter IX. Armenian International Trade in the Last Part of the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter X. Marcara Avanchinz, A Director of the French East India Company -- Chapter XI. Armenians and the European Companies.
ISBN
  • 0788505718
  • 9780788505713
LCCN
99028484
OCLC
  • ocm41452604
  • 41452604
  • SCSB-14428309
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library