The politics of trade in Safavid Iran : silk for silver, 1600-1730 / Rudolph P. Matthee.
The politics of trade in Safavid Iran : silk for silver, 1600-1730 / Rudolph P. Matthee.
The politics of trade in Safavid Iran : silk for silver, 1600-1730 / Rudolph P. Matthee.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1999.
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N380.14567/1
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English
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xxi, 290 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Iranian silk trade: from the Silk Road to the Safavids -- 2. Procedures, logistics, and 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 mon...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1999.
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England
Date Published
c1999.
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"Rudolph P. Matthee's book offers a sophisticated, revisionist interpretation of the economy of Safavid Iran. Using a wide range of archival and written sources in languages ranging from Persian to Dutch and Russian, the author considers the economic, social and political networks established between Iran, its neighbors, and the world at large, thr...
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The politics of trade in Safavid Iran : silk for silver, 1600-1730 / Rudolph P. Matthee.
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1999.
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N380.14567/1
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0521641314
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0521641314 :
9780521641319
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380.145677390955
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991014085959702626
