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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baghdiantz McCabe, Ina.

Series:

University of Pennsylvania Armenian texts and studies ; no. 15.

University of Pennsylvania Armenian texts and studies ; no. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenians--Commerce--Iran--Iṣfahān--History.

Armenians.

Silk industry--Iran--History.

Silk industry.

Silk industry--Europe--History.

History.

Armenians--Commerce.

Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran)--Ethnic relations--History.

Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran).

Europe.

Iran.

Iran--Iṣfahān.

Physical Description:

xxii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, [1999]

Contents:

Introduction: Problems And Polemics 1

Chapter I The International Context of the Silk Trade 15

Chapter II Outsiders as a new Elite: The Safavids and their Deportation Policy in the Caucasus 35

Chapter III The Republic of New Julfa: The "Armenian Nation" within the Safavid State 79

Chapter IV The Armenian Silk Trade and Iran's Early State Formation 115

Chapter V New Julfans as Financiers of the Court 141

Chapter VI The Decline of New Julfa and its Loss of Political Status in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century 171

Chapter VII Merchant Organization and National Interest 199

Chapter VIII The "Armenian Trading Company" of New Julfa 241

Chapter IX Armenian International Trade in the Last Part of the Seventeenth Century 271

Chapter X Marcara Avanchinz, A Director of the French East India Company 295

Chapter XI The Armenians and the European Companies 327.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-406) and index.

ISBN:

0788505718

OCLC:

41452604