The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran
Silk for Silver, 1600 1730
Using a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social and political networks established between Iran, its neighbours and the world at large, through the prism of the late Safavid silk trade. In so doing, he demonstrates how silk, a resource crucial to state revenue and the only commodity to span Iran's entire economic activity, was integral to aspects of late Safavid society, including its approach to commerce, export routes and, importantly, to the political and economic problems which contributed to its collapse in the early 1700s. In a challenge to traditional scholarship, the author argues that d…
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Weitere Autoren: Rudolph P., Matthee / Morgan, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-02844-8
- EAN: 9780521028448
- Produktnummer: 2402877
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 316 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 488 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 488
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