Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran - Silk for Silver, 1600-1730

Klappentext This book considers the economic! social and political importance of the silk trade in Safavid Iran. Zusammenfassung This book considers the importance of the silk trade in Safavid Iran and its commercial relationship with its European neighbours. Theoretical and innovative! it makes a major contribution to debates on the social and economic history of the pre-modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on transliteration; List of abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; 1. The Iranian silk trade: from the Silk Road to the Safavids; 2. Procedures, logistics, finances; 3. Shah 'Abbas I and the Safavid political economy: territorial expansion, anti-Ottoman diplomacy, and the politics of silk; 4. Government control and growing competition: the silk export monopoly and the advent of the European maritime companies; 5. The complications of privatization: from the abolition of the silk export monopoly to the peace of Zuhab, 1629-1639; 6. Conflict and reorientation: silk to silver, 1640-1667; 7. Renewed regulation and the rise of the Russian connection, 1660s-1690s; 8. Contraction and continuity, 1690-1730; Conclusion; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Rudolph P. Matthee, Rudolph P. (University of Delaware) Matthee
• Assisted by: David Morgan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.1999
• EAN: 9780521641319
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64131-9
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries