From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
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From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean

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From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean

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Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world—both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires—astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780520947573
Edition
1
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Storia mediorientale

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Preface
  6. Note on Transliteration
  7. 1. From Trade Diasporas to Circulation Societies
  8. 2. Old Julfa, the Great Deportations, and the Founding of New Julfa
  9. 3. The Julfan Trade Network I:TheWorld of the Indian Ocean
  10. 4. The Julfan Trade Network II: The Mediterranean, Northwestern European, and Russian Networks
  11. 5. “The salt in a merchant’s letter”: Business Correspondence and the Courier System
  12. 6. The Circulation of Men and Credit:The Commenda and the Family Firm
  13. 7. Trust, Social Capital, and Networks: Informal and Semiformal Institutions at Work
  14. 8. The Center Cannot Hold: The Decline and Collapse of the Julfan Trade Network
  15. Conclusion: Comparative Thoughts on Julfan Armenians, Multani Indians, and Sephardic Jews
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index