From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa Volume 17

by Sebouh David Aslanian

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520266870
• ISBN13: 9780520266872
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"