From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean - The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants From New Julfa

"Sebouh David Aslanian draws upon an unrivaled body of original documentation, collected in seven languages from twenty-five archives, to reconstruct in great detail the logic and working of a global commercial network. He poses a series of fundamental questions concerning the Julfan network and critically assesses both the received literature and the very documentation on which he grounds his revisionist study, making this a valuable contribution to comparative economic history."—Edward Alpers, author of East Africa and the Indian Ocean

"From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean is without question an exceptionally interesting, well-researched, and original study. The work is the product of lengthy and determined exploratory archival research whose global reach reflects the far-flung trading network of Aslanian’s subject. Compared to previous work on the Julfa Armenians (or the trade of the Safavid Empire in general), it is on an altogether higher level of theoretical sophistication."—Edmund Herzig, editor of Iran and the World in the Safavid Age

About the author

Sebouh David Aslanian is Professor & Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Product details

• Authors: Sebouh Aslanian
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2014
• EAN: 9780520282179
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28217-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: California World History Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / World, Middle East, General & world history, Middle Eastern history, General and world history